While supply chains could be physically assembled in a straightforward manner, managing them required skills and approaches that were not needed when businesses operated more autonomously. Building communication, collaboration, and trust into supply chains presented new challenges, especially as supply chains became more globally dispersed and complex. We like to think we did a good job of spelling out the fundamentals of supply chain management in our first edition. However, just as supply chains and their management have evolved, our presentation in this second edition has also evolved…
