Orchestrating supply chain opportunities : achieving stretch goals efficiently /

Iyer, Ananth V,

Orchestrating supply chain opportunities : achieving stretch goals efficiently / Ananth Iyer and Alex Zelikovsky. - 1st ed. - 1 electronic text (xviii, 106 pages) : digital file. - Supply and operations management collection, 2156-8200 . - Supply and operations management collection, .



Introduction: orchestrating supply chain opportunities -- 1. Amazon.com, orchestrating stretch demand: how Amazon.com saved Christmas -- 2. The U.S. Coast Guard, orchestrating stretch response: how the U.S. Coast Guard saved victims of Katrina -- 3. Reflect.com, orchestrating stretch innovation: how Procter and Gamble leveraged innovation on the internet -- 4. Watsco, orchestrating stretch opportunities: how Watsco navigated a perfect storm -- 5. Kryptonite Lock Company, orchestrating survival: how the blogs unlocked the secret of Kryptonite -- 6. The United Nations Joint Logistics Center, orchestrating humanitarian logistics: how the UNJLC coordinates relief for victims of global catastrophes -- 7. Fashion demand stretch, everybody needs a Croc: globally scaling a supply chain -- 8. Freeflow, stretching the web: how technology enabled resolution of supply demand mismatches -- 9. Orchestrating reconfiguration: how SAP and Shipwire enable the unexpected -- 10. Building flexibility, agility, and real options into your supply chain: how can your company orchestrate stretch goals? -- 11. Gizmo,-a story of stretch: -- stretching a fictional story of success -- 12. Book summary, conclusions, and takeaways: a summary of supply chain stretch -- 13. A stretchable supply chain checklist: questions all managers should ask about their supply chains -- Notes -- Index.

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This book provides a flexibility, agility, real options (FAR) framework to orchestrate supply chain opportunities. Using best-practice cases across the industry spectrum, from nonprofits to retail, from demand surges to regulatory impacts and natural disasters, orchestrating supply chain opportunities requires deliberate management choices. This book provides a primer for success.




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9781606492246

10.4128/9781606492246 doi

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Business logistics.

Supply chain management Real options Flexibility Agility Ecommerce Disasters Opportunities


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