Digital Supply Chains: Key Facilitator to Industry 4.0 and New Business Models, Leveraging S/4 HANA and Beyond

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This book provides a practical guide to digital supply chain modelling, demonstrating an agile approach to how such models can be applied to any manufacturing company to build competitive advantage, facilitate new business models and drive towards Industry 4.0. The agile approach of the book provides an attractive alternative to the conventional country-by-country deployment of S/4 HANA and other relevant technologies. This book contains the expertise Gotz G. Wehberg has amassed over 20 years as a senior partner in a leading consulting company, working across industries and with globally recognized clients, advising on digitization. In it, he explains the scientific roots of digital supply chain management such as holism, cybernetics, self-organization and evolutionary theory to inform a deep understanding that can drive a supremely innovative strategy for Industry 4.0. Beyond strategy, Wehberg introduces the practical tools and technologies used in supply chain modelling, for example, sensors, big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, as well as a reference framework that categorizes the technologies, together with the latest concepts and tools, such as DDMRP, predictive S&OP, pattern recognition, autonomous logistics and Lean. This framework supports decision making for developing supply chains in an end-to-end and cross-functional fashion, providing clear guidance for executives and managers on how to design supply chains for the future. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Preface To get started – three videos on digital supply chains In a nutshell – ten theses on digital supply chains PART 1 Why supply chain complexity matters 1 The complexity issue 2 Need for a framework Literature PART 2 Where we come from 1 Existing approaches 2 Resilient understanding 2.1 Roots 2.2 Integration as core 2.3 Complex eco-systems 2.4 Key enablers: technology and change 3 Frame of reference: digital twin of supply chains Literature PART 3 What a digital supply chain is 1 Cultural aspects 1.1 Supply chain philosophy 1.2 Mindset, openness, orientation and attitude 2 Supply chain information 2.1 Complexity, information and coordination 2.2 Pattern recognition 2.3 Big data, predictive analytics and sensors 2.4 Master data and contextualization 3 Supply chain planning 3.1 Target setting 3.2 Basic supply chain strategies 3.2.1 Competitive advantage 3.2.2 Sales & operations planning 3.2.3 Learning 3.3 Functional strategies 3.3.1 Configuration 3.3.2 Transport 3.3.3 Packaging 3.3.4 Warehousing 3.3.5 Information logistics 3.3.6 Logistics for the circular economy Literature 4 Relevance of the digital twin of a product 4.1 Marketing logistics 4.2 Service competition and pioneer marketing 5 Coordination along the chain 5.1 Supply chain coupling 5.2 Mastering the digital twin Literature PART 4 How to develop digital supply chains 1 Typical paths of supply chain evolution 1.1 Trend-sonar digital supply chains 1.2 Market development and supply chain evolution 1.3 Technology development and supply chain evolution 1.4 New business models and digital supply chains 1.5 LogTechs – start-ups in the logistics service provider market 1.5.1 Asset-light business models 1.5.2 Typical LogTech clusters 2 Key principles of supply chain evolution 2.1 Perspectives of organizational theory 2.1.1 Industry perspective 2.1.2 Corporate perspective 2.1.3 Self-organization and autopoiesis 2.1.4 Cybernetics 2.2 Integration of perspectives and key design principles 2.2.1 Umbrella for key design principles 2.2.2 Design principles of self-organization 2.2.3 Supply chain fitness 2.2.4 Strategies of supply chain evolution 3 Next steps for the digital supply chain 3.1 Overall approach to digitalization of the supply chain 3.2 Baselining and assessing maturity 3.3 Defining the target operating model 3.4 Planning the implementation roadmap Literature PART 5 Over and beyond digital supply chains The ten biggest errors as to digital supply chains Index