Transforming Supply Chains: Realign your business to better serve customers in a disruptive world

by John Gattorna, Deborah Ellis

Reinvent your supply chain from the outside in – leverage customer insight, heuristics and digital tools to meet rising expectations and adapt in a volatile world. Customers have become increasingly demanding, and the operating environment has become more turbulent and complex. Mature companies wishing to survive and thrive in the coming decades must transform themselves to become flexible and market responsive. They need to reconsider their traditional supply chains and find ways to increase the clockspeed of their operation and their decision making without creating more complexity for their staff and partners. But where to start this transformation journey? Most of the world’s largest corporations have logistics networks and supply chains that have evolved over time, many based around systems that drive a ‘one-size-fits-all’ philosophy, which does not fit anymore. And most have not kept up with the changing cadence of their markets. This book describes the path to a different paradigm; where a set of tailored supply chains are used for in-built flexibility and adaption as the world changes, and where internal capabilities and digital capabilities are consciously aligned with the customers and strategies they serve. Transforming Supply Chains builds on John Gattorna’s seminal Dynamic Alignment framework; and he and his long-term collaborator Deborah Ellis review the analytics and decision-making tools needed to be effective in the digital age. Case Studies of organisations that excel using the ‘outside-in’ paradigm that they describe are scattered throughout the book; as are a series of prompts to help ‘kick start your thinking’ about your own transformation path. Transforming Supply Chains is your guide to designing supply chains that fit, and adapt, and bring competitive advantage - whatever your business and whoever your customers.

272 pages, Paperback

Published May 13, 2019

Reviews

[Antonio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Transforming Supply Chains is in my opinion one of the most revolutionary books about supply chain management. This book is some kind of sequel to his colossal work: Dynamic Supply chains but it is much easier to read and comprehend.

John Gattorna connects his Dynamic Supply chains model with design thinking. He also goes through all technologies that could transform the supply chain and give us a path for transforming the supply chain in a way that is more agile and could withstand the rapid changes of the business environment.

This is my assessment of the book Transforming Supply Chains: Strategic Perspective by John Gattorna according to my 8 criteria:
1. Related to practice - 5 stars
2. It prevails important - 5 stars
3. I agree with the read - 5 stars
4. not difficult to read (as for non-English native) - 5 stars
5. Too long (more than 500 pages) - short and concise (150-200 pages) - 4 stars
6. Boring - every sentence is interesting - 4 stars
7. Learning opportunity - 4 stars
8. Dry and uninspired style of writing - Smooth style with humouristic and fun parts - 4 stars



Total 4.5 stars