Next generation supply chains: The guide for business leaders

Supply chains are the lifeblood of any business, bridging the distance between producer and customer, supply and demand. However, for a long time leaders have considered supply chain management to be a support, cost-added activity, something best kept out of sight and out of mind.

Instead, this guide's purpose is to convince business leaders that supply chain management can be used as a business leverage for value creation and competitive advantage. Now more than ever, agile and resilient supply chains are vital in coping with uncertain markets and volatile world events, driving sustainable development, boosting current business models, and even simulating the creation of new ones.

This book sets out the terms and paradigms necessary for an understanding of the supply chain, illuminates the types of value supply chain management can provide to businesses, and covers the solutions that business leaders can implement to reap the benefits of a value-creation supply chain approach.

Next Generation Supply Chains breaks down this complex, nuanced field with helpful explanations, detailed diagrams and testimonies from leading businesses, laying out why an understanding of supply chain management is integral to any business leader. Written by Michel Fender, an expert with over thirty years' industry experience in advisory, training, technical and management capacities, this is an essential guide to the subject.

Michel Fender is a leading authority on supply chain management and logistics with more than 30 years' experience as a corporate advisor and lecturer. He is an adjunct professor at HEC Paris and a professor at Africa Business School (UM6P) in Morocco and he is also a senior advisor to large companies at the executive committee level. He has extensive experience across multiple sectors including FMCG, Retail and Distribution B2B and B2C, Third Party Logistics, Pharmaceutical and Health Care Products, Publishing, Aircraft, Building Materials, Chemical, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Recycling, National agencies and Investment banking. His pedagogical background includes HEC Paris, ESSEC, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech as Professor, Dean of MBA, Dean of Executive Education and he has been teaching in custom programs and Executive MBA programs such as TRIUM (HEC-LSE-NYU) since 2015