Supply Chain Management

A Public Sector Perspective
This book provides practical insight into how to improve the effectiveness, resilience, and agility of supply chain operation in the public domain. Mark Fagan highlights how supply chains can support public policy goals, and identifies how to create policy that enables this impact and minimizes unintended side effects.
This book provides practical insight into how to improve the effectiveness, resilience, and agility of supply chain operation in the public domain. Mark Fagan identifies key guiding principles and strategies based on past successes and failures, producing a roadmap for the future of supply chain management.

Responding to the increased salience and fragility of supply chains in light of Covid-19, environmental concerns, and geopolitical factors, this book adopts a unique perspective by focusing on the public sector. It analyzes specific case studies, and examines how to build and manage supply chains at the systems level. Chapters investigate key issues including evaluation processes, AI in supply chains, friend shoring and near shoring, and ensuring human rights across the supply chain. Fagan highlights how supply chains can support public policy goals, and identifies how to create policy that enables this impact and minimizes unintended side effects.

Providing a nuanced vision for the future of supply chains, this book is an invaluable resource for supply chain managers and policymakers in the public sphere. It is also an important read for scholars and students of operations management, public administration, and regulation and governance.

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