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

Preface

It was springtime in 2012, and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University (MSU) had recently entered into a partnership with Bisk Education, a worldwide leader in online education via its University Alliance platform. Since MSU had been a worldwide leader in supply chain management for more than half a century, it was looking strategically at the University Alliance platform as a global vehicle to take its supply chain management education and executive training across the globe. And naturally, global supply chain management had to be a critical portion of this global strategy.

But it had to be done in such a way that it was truly global supply chain management and not in any way skewed toward any of the core functions ...