Managing Growth and Expansion into Global Markets

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Unique Challenges of Supply-Chain, Transportation, and Logistics Companies in Merger and Acquisition and Growth Strategies

This chapter outlines the numerous challenges that companies engaged in global supply chains face in successfully growing their business models. It sets the structure and the balance of material and content covered throughout the balance of this book.

Define the Global Supply Chain

The global supply chain is defined as the connectivity and relationships of the parties to an international transaction that typically interface with each other for the purpose of delivering a final product and/or service. The success of any global supply chain is totally dependent on how well that connectivity works between all the vested parties. ...