Resilient Supply Chain Management: Innovative, Lean And Agile Tools For Supply, Demand And Operations

Resilient Supply Chain Management is the ideal guide for professionals and practitioners who wish to incorporate quality management (QM) concepts into their practice to achieve a competitive advantage across all business functions. Today's supply chains face unprecedented risks from trade wars, civil unrest, extreme weather, and volatile market dynamics. Resilience is the ability to withstand these risks without hampering the growth of your business, and resilience in supply chains is essential for a business's survival and continued profitability in uncertain markets. This book teaches readers to re-imagine how they think about supply chain management (SCM) and its role in corporate strategy. The key concepts of digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), change management, cost-saving, the lean approach to SCM, operations management, and both supply-side and customer-side SCM are explained and developed in terms of building business resilience and optimising the supply chain. The speed with which a business responds to operational disruptions through flexible contingency planning and forecasting determines its ability to overcome — and even gain advantage from — obstacles that may thwart its competitors. Effective, efficient, and resilient supply chain management means designing, planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring the activities of your supply chain in the most economical way possible without sacrificing resilience in the face of uncertainty and operational disruption.

Marc Helmold (MBA) is a full-time professor at IU International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany. He teaches bachelor's, master's, and MBA courses in business management, operations management, lean management, quality management, and leadership. He has previously held several executive leadership positions at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the automotive, railway, and aviation industries. At IU Internationale Hochschule, where he has been working since 2016, he also conducts workshops on lean and quality management and leadership. Through these workshops he helps companies improve their performance, strategies and processes. He is the author of many peer-reviewed books and journals and has been a keynote speaker at several conferences.