Re-Imagining Supply Chain Management: Uncovering the Hidden Trade-offs in the Digital Age

by Isik Biçer

Overview

Supply chain management is a substantially complex area for many businesses due to its diverse set of actions, agents, decisions, risks, and uncertainties. Consequently, supply chains often break up in disarray due to their structural complexity coupled with risks and uncertainties in the absence of clear objectives. Işık Biçer addresses these issues by uncovering the fundamental trade-offs of supply chain management, their economic causes, and strategic implications. He offers a novel framework of supply chain management based on its role in economic systems. The framework shows four effective supply chain strategies according to business models and organizational sensitivity to operational trade-offs. Furthermore, it offers a detailed account of the digital transformation of supply chains, elaborating on crucial aspects of the design and implementation of digitalization. This is an indispensable source for supply chain professionals, consultants, economists, and policymakers with a keen interest in supply chain management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009619165
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2025
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Işık Biçer is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also area director of the Ph.D. program and director of an executive certificate program in supply chain management. He teaches graduate-level courses about digital transformation, predictive modeling, and prescriptive analytics in the Tech MBA, MBAN, and MMAI programs at Schulich School of Business, as well as conducting research on uncertainty modelling and convolutional optimization techniques and their applications to supply chains. Işık has worked on several digital transformation projects with various firms, some of which feature in this book.  The author of 15 top research papers, his work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.  He has also published a graduate-level textbook, Supply Chain Analytics: Uncertainty Modeling Approach (2023).

Table of Contents

Part I. Anatomy of Supply Chain Management: 1. Economics of supply chain management; 2. Trade-off structure of supply chain management; 3. Supply chain risks and uncertainties; Part II. Four Strategies of Supply Chain Management: 4. Leading the operational edge: supply chain integration; 5. Innovative business development: supply chain finance; 6. The premium business: market-driven supply chain management; 7. Economic theory's sweet spot: lean systems; Part III. Digitizing the supply chain: 8. Design of digital transformation; 9. Integrating end-to-end digital transformation; 10. Closing remarks.