Thomas Mrozek, Daniel Seitz, Kai-Uwe Gundermann, Matthias Dicke

Digital Supply Chains (eBook, ePUB)

A Practitioner's Guide to Successful Digitalization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Concrete instructions for digital transformation in business Supply Chain Management is without question deeply affected by the disruptive forces of a modern organization, positively as well as negatively. Between Advanced Analytics and AI, agile role models and autonomous warehouses a senior executive is often in danger of losing track in the digital jungle. In these exciting times, with their many turning points, h&z aims to share insights around digital supply chains, their application in business and the so vital transformation to successfully prepare organizations for this challenge. This book provides insights into best practices current supply chain and how CSOs apply technologies and advancements. It also makes daring forecasts about how processes and leadership must be designed so that the digital transformation does not fail in its infancy, but leads to a truly agile organization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783593443966
• Artikelnr.: 58333824

Autorenporträt

Thomas Mrozek is a partner at h&z and responsible for supply chain management. Mrozek's specialization is making supply chains future-proof, and he works with major corporations and medium-sized businesses to make sustainable improvements to service. Daniel Seitz is a partner at h&z and responsible for supply chain management. Seitz is the co-founder of h&z Supply Chain Innovation Forums. He works to make businesses and organizations reach higher levels of performance by developing innovative concepts. Kai-Uwe Gundermann, Senior Expert and Project Leader at h&z, combines expert knowledge with practical experience for supply chain management. His emphasis is on planning, logistics, production and operating model optimization. Matthias Dicke is a consultant and part of Supply Chain Practice at h&z. In his capacity as digital native and a member of Generation Y, he is particularly interested in working with clients to institute new practices along the supply chain.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Part 1 General Introduction 10 To ensure easy reading, we added some icons for you 10 Overview of Interviews 11 Acknowledgement 12 Bring your clients to the digital world— They expect it from you: Letter from a COO 13 Part 2 Enablers for Future Supply Chains Building blocks of the Digital Supply Chain 20 Introduction 20 Key terms and their definitions 21 The Digital Supply Chain Pillars 24 Digital applications for SCM today and tomorrow 25 The year 2025: Advanced Analytics and AI will lead the way 27 The author's perspective 28 A strategy ties it all together 28 Think about people 29 Digital evolution along the supply chain 29 The nine digital technologies in detail 32 Advanced Analytics: Powerful and indispensable 44 Introduction 44 What is Big Data actually? What is Advanced Analytics? 45 Three key enablers build the Foundation for Successful Implementation and Utilization 49 Fields of Application of Advanced Analytics in SCM 57 Challenges 59 Roadmap to successful implementation of Advanced Analytics 60 Conclusion 61 Artificial Intelligence: Supply Chains will never be the same 63 Introduction 63 AI, ML, DL: What does it all mean? 64 Don't believe the hype (at least not all of it) 68 Why AI in SCM? 71 How to enable your supply chain 73 The drawbacks 77 Conclusion 78 Call to action: A checklist for practitioners 79 Which concepts for the digitalization of the supply chain are relevant for you? 79 Part 3 Leverage Enablers for Supply Chain Functions Digital Procurement: A key driver for performance improvement 84 Introduction: More evolution than revolution 84 Procurement 4.0: Comprehensive transformation beyond technology 85 Triad for success: Structure, Digital Solutions and People & Skills 87 Evolving capabilities and roles: The buyer in the future procurement setup 92 Five tips for digital transformation in procurement 100 Outlook 100 Future Supply Chain planning: Faster and smarter 102 Introduction and status quo 102 The future of supply chain planning 105 The impact on planning functions 111 What is required to achive this step into the future? 113 How will planning organizations have to change? 115 Lessons learned from supply chain leaders 117 Roadmap to success 118 Logistics today and tomorrow 121 Introduction 121 Advantages and limits of digitalization 121 New business models and value-added services 123 Business models with value-added services 123 Lessons for Implementation 129 Supply Chain visibility: Connecting the dots 135 B2C has it all—but why? 135 Background: Supply chain visibility isn't new, but it's changing 136 The barriers to SC visibility 137 The problems caused by a lack of visibility 140 Visibility matters 142 How visibility creates value 144 A recipe for establishing SCM visibility 146 Tips 148 Call to action: A checklist for practitioners 151 Lessons learned: Procurement 151 Lessons learned: Supply Chain planning 152 Lessons learned: Logistics today and tomorrow 154 Lessons learned: Supply Chain visibility 156 Part 4 Digital Supply Chains in Action Being a leader in a Digital Supply Chain 160 Introduction 160 Activities today vs.