Book Insights from Supply Chain Leader

A collection of books, worth reading not only once but many times over. These books will enrich you with interesting insights….

The Resilient Enterprise (Yossi Sheffi)

Yossi is an international expert in supply chain management and the professor at MIT.  Yossi provides tools to reduce supply chain vulnerability and increase their resilience to build competitive advantage. He offers various tactics to build resilience..

Fast response, postponement, modular design, flexible contract, standardization, multi sourcing, and product model reductions can mitigate supply chain risk as well as build competitive advantage.

Resilience can be built through partnering and corporate culture.

Disruptions in supply chain are expensive. Anticipate disruptions and assess their likelihood.

Airline pilots report near mid-air collisions and it helps identify mistakes to avoid future mistakes. Build the capability to detect disruption at early stage.

Resilience is the capability to rise up and be on your feet fast.  Build redundancy in supply chain through safety stock and surplus capacity.

Copy Exact! Strategy, Parts Standardization, Postponement, Walk a Mile program, strong partner relations enable supply chain flexibility.

Finally resilience is part of organization culture.

Resilience can be built through partnering and corporate culture.