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This book presents a strategic decision-making process (i.e.,
scenario planning) to help managers build supply chain
infrastructures that can adapt to uncertain shifts in the business
environment. The authors detail the process for developing and
applying scenarios for strategic planning in organizations playing
three different roles in supply chains. Using three cases in which
the process was applied in association with the MIT Center for
Transportation & Logistics, this primer also explains how
companies can monitor their business environments to decide when to
take the necessary steps to adapt their supply chain strategies and
assets. The lessons learned are applicable globally: in first-world
free-market economies, emerging countries and poorer nations, as
well as the states where the government plays a strong role in the
economic activity. For companies looking to assess the numerous
drivers shaping their supply chains and use that information to
make living strategic plans, this book will teach you how to build
adaptable and agile supply chains. It will explain how to approach
long-term investments in your organization.
How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies
with competitive advantage. Why is Memphis home to hundreds of
motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny
island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world's maritime
containers and half the world's annual supply of crude oil? Which
jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced economies?
Some of the answers to these questions are rooted in the phenomenon
of logistics clusters-geographically concentrated sets of
logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain
management expert Yossi Sheffi explains why Memphis, Singapore,
Chicago, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and scores of other locations have
been successful in developing such clusters while others have not.
Sheffi outlines the characteristic "positive feedback loop" of
logistics clusters development and what differentiates them from
other industrial clusters; how logistics clusters "add value" by
generating other industrial activities; why firms should locate
their distribution and value-added activities in logistics
clusters; and the proper role of government support, in the form of
investment, regulation, and trade policy. Sheffi also argues for
the most important advantage offered by logistics clusters in
today's recession-plagued economy: jobs, many of them open to
low-skilled workers, that are concentrated locally and not
"offshorable." These logistics clusters offer what is rare in
today's economy: authentic success stories. For this reason,
numerous regional and central governments as well as scores of real
estate developers are investing in the development of such
clusters. View a trailer for the book at:
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/22284-logistics-clusters-yossi-sheffi
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