Digital Supply Networks book
Transform your supply chain and reimagine processes
Digital technologies are quickly transforming supply chain management processes. To remain competitive, organizations must digitize their demand-supply systems, create connected processes, and leverage data-driven decision-making to create a fully integrated digital supply network (DSN).
About the “Digital Supply Networks” book
The evolution of digital technologies is fundamentally changing the world around us. From artificial intelligence to additive manufacturing and blockchain, technology is converging to enable the automation of key business functions, providing organizations with an opportunity to rethink and transform their flow of supplies. No longer is a traditional linear supply chain model enough to compete in today’s fast-moving digital business environment. Organizations must evolve their existing processes to embrace emerging digital technologies to transform their linear supply chain into a concurrent digital supply network.
In the book, Digital Supply Networks, authors Rafael Calderon, Amit Sinha, Ednilson Bernardes, and Thorsten Wuest examine the influence new technologies have on supply chain management processes and best practices. Drawn from real-world experience and academic research, the Digital Supply Networks book provides an in-depth account of the move to virtually connected supply chain management networks.
Digital supply networks to drive value
Organizations that have embraced and leveraged digital transformation for enterprise-level optimization are realizing unprecedented value. Driven by game-changing technologies, the new wave of industrial and economic progress is challenging the assumptions, limitations, and mental models of traditional supply chain management—and Digital Supply Networks can help you capitalize on it.
The Digital Supply Networks book is a groundbreaking guide that details information and insights you need to concurrently plan, execute, and enable digital supply chains. It discusses the impact disruptive technology is having on supply chain management processes and practices, providing deep dives into:
- Traditional supply chain management (SCM) processes, its advantages, new opportunities, and digital transformation
- Illustration of DSN (reimagined SCM) processes
- Cutting-edge technologies, which can intelligently automate the organizational processes
- Big data and data analytics
- Machine learning, AI, robotics, and blockchain - Synchronized planning and product development
- Intelligent supply
- Smart manufacturing and asset management
- Connected customer and dynamic fulfillment
- Workforce, skill changes, and social impact
- A transformation and strategy playbook
- Use cases and guidance from leading adopters
With the Digital Supply Networks book, you can effectively transition from a linear-based approach to a dynamic network approach and create an unbeatable competitive edge. By reimagining how to organize and run the value chain, transforming existing processes, and strategically combining new elements of digital technology, you can unlock the potential for extraordinary value creation.
Praise for Digital Supply Networks
In a digital economy, connected by the cloud through ubiquitous smart devices and data-enabled actions, understanding and implementing a digital supply network is the lifeblood of the system. The authors elegantly illustrate how major advances in technologies must be orchestrated in new ways to power the rapidly evolving and real-time demands of supply chain management. The insights are both provocative and actionable, providing the reader with a road map for implementation.
—Brad D. Smith, executive chairman, Intuit
An important and timely subject that most companies are grappling with!
—Yossi Sheffi, director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
The digital transformation will unlock new opportunities and hence needs to be the key strategic topic for organizations. A fascinating read for executives who intend to drive the digital journey using the emerging technologies.
—Diana Volks, head of supply chain management, Bayer
The COVID-19 pandemic shows us that in times of increasing complexity and speed, we depend on transparency, fast reaction, or even prediction to reduce the vulnerability of our entirely globalized supply chains. And digitalization is key to gain this required level of transparency and anticipation. This book provides helpful insights, explaining more technical details in a digestible manner.
—Stefan Waskow, partner, head of procurement and quality, Volkswagen Consulting
Often the journey of a reimagined integrated supply chain will enable cross-functional collaboration and surface new insights and surprises. It is important for the organization’s leadership, from the shop floor to the boardroom, to embrace the new end-to-end intelligence and focus on how to accelerate results. The rewards are well worth the endeavor. Digital Supply Networks provides a valuable transformational road map for your organization’s journey.
—Bob Gorski, former executive vice president, Kraft Foods, and former vice president global supply chain, Procter & Gamble
Excellent hand-on playbook focusing on technology and process change to guide your digital transformation of the supply chain.
—Jeff Fleck, chief supply chain officer, Georgia Pacific
