Overview

Supply chain management is a substantially complex area for many businesses due to its diverse set of actions, agents, decisions, risks, and uncertainties. Consequently, supply chains often break up in disarray due to their structural complexity coupled with risks and uncertainties in the absence of clear objectives. Işık Biçer addresses these issues by uncovering the fundamental trade-offs of supply chain management, their economic causes, and strategic implications. He offers a novel framework of supply chain management based on its role in economic systems. The framework shows four effective supply chain strategies according to business models and organizational sensitivity to operational trade-offs. Furthermore, it offers a detailed account of the digital transformation of supply chains, elaborating on crucial aspects of the design and implementation of digitalization. This is an indispensable source for supply chain professionals, consultants, economists, and policymakers with a keen interest in supply chain management.

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'Biçer provides a timely and rigorous exploration of the trade-offs that define modern supply chains. His framework bridges theory and practice, enabling organizations to make more informed decisions and optimize the use of resources in an increasingly unpredictable global landscape. This work empowers organizations to rethink, redesign, and transform their supply chains for the future.' Eric van Dijk, CEO and Founder of Slimstock 'In a clear and expository narrative, Biçer seamlessly connects basic economic principles with the hard trade-offs that supply chain decision makers face. This unique combination of thought allows a curious reader to develop an integrated understanding how to navigate current challenges in resilience and digitization of supply chains.' Jan Fransoo, Professor of Operations and Logistics Management, Tilburg University 'This book is an invaluable reference for practitioners and scholars interested in understanding and tackling the critical challenge of digital transformation of supply chains – a defining global issue for economic sustainability in the decades to come. Professor Bicer provides an excellent framework and a set of impactful business cases in establishing a roadmap for decision-makers to benefit from digital technologies in supply chain management.' Onur Boyabatli, Professor of Operations Management, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Author Information

Işık Biçer is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also area director of the Ph.D. program and director of an executive certificate program in supply chain management. He teaches graduate-level courses about digital transformation, predictive modeling, and prescriptive analytics in the Tech MBA, MBAN, and MMAI programs at Schulich School of Business, as well as conducting research on uncertainty modelling and convolutional optimization techniques and their applications to supply chains. Işık has worked on several digital transformation projects with various firms, some of which feature in this book. The author of 15 top research papers, his work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He has also published a graduate-level textbook, Supply Chain Analytics: Uncertainty Modeling Approach (2023).

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