Introduction

N. Viswanadham and S. Kameshwaran
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N. Viswanadham: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
S. Kameshwaran: IBM Research – India, Bangalore, India

Chapter 1 in Ecosystem-Aware Global Supply Chain Management, 2013, pp 3-15 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractIn this chapter, we provide an overview of the supply chain networks, the recent developments due to globalization, and introduce the notion of supply chain ecosystem. For the last four decades the supply chains of various verticals are very well studied to optimize the supply-demand matching, lead time, and cost. Taking lessons from manufacturing, particularly from Japan, the supply chains have been designed to be of high performance. Globalization has restructured and stretched the supply chains across the national borders. They are highly connected logistically for flow of goods, through Internet for flow of information, and financially for flow of funds. Dense connectedness has made the supply chains fragile and highly risk prone. The financial crisis of 2007 in USA propagated into global trade crisis affecting the flow of goods across the globe…

Keywords: Global Supply Chains; Supply Chain Ecosystem; Innovation; Supply Chain Risk; Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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