Global Supply Chain Management: Leveraging Processes, Measurements, and Tools for Strategic Corporate Advantage

CHAPTER 8Managing Global Supply Chains

Coordination creates value for stakeholders in global supply chains.

VALUE OF MANAGING THE LOCATION OF GLOBAL ACTIVITIES _____

If you are interested only in tactically managing global supply chains, then you are not the main audience for this book. Global supply chain management is inherently both strategic and tactical (operational). While we find that the global strategy efforts of multinational corporations explain 70 percent of a firm’s performance in the global marketplace, we also find that global supply chain efforts account for roughly 21 percent of that effort today and are predicted to account for 25 percent in five years (that is, global supply chains are becoming more important and more global). ...