Chapter 12 Role and Impact of Big Data Analytics Determinants in Improving Supply Chain Agility

Manish Mohan Baral
Subhodeep Mukherjee
Chittipaka Venkataiah
Sudhir Rana
Bhaswati Jana

Introduction

In the current scenario supply chain (SC) has been recognized as a competitive advantage for any firm. It is a very challenging task to handle SCs (Lee, 2002). Due to continuous advancement, outsourcing, globalization, etc., SC managing has become a very challenging job (Lee, 2004). Fisher (2011) tried matching SC strategies (for instance, responsive vs efficient) to characteristics of goods (for instance, innovative vs. functional). Lee (2002) had proposed strategies (like agile/hedging risk/responsive/efficient) to provide solutions ...

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