You are not alone if you wonder what the management part of supply chain management is about.
The Future of Management by Gary Hamel is not about SCM, but this book does certainly offer an interesting view of management. This is one of the observations made at the beginning of the book:
“Yet unlike the laws of physics, the laws of management are neither foreordained nor eternal—and a good thing, too, for the equipment of management is now groaning under the strain of a load it was never meant to carry.Whiplash change, fleetinga dvantages, technological disruptions, seditious competitors, fractured markets, omnipotent customers, rebellious shareholders—these 21stcentury challenges are testing the design limits of organizations around the world, and are exposing the limitations of a management model that has failed to keep pace with the times.”
Supply chain management is often presented in terms of high degree of inter-firm integration that is grounded in efficient coordination of economic activities. But does this integration allow organisations to respond to the challenges Gary Hamel is referring to above?
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