You will learn several advanced, emerging strategies that apply to a wide range of supply chains. Youll see how to understand and cope with supply uncertainty to make your production process more reliable, use active demand management methods to minimize the impact of shortages, and discover new types of supplier arrangements that share risk among supply chain partners while providing benefits to all players.

Finally, youll see which of the strategies youve learned arent software-intensive and understand how you should go about evaluating software for those cases where it is a critical part of the improvement strategy. This can prevent costly mistakes that dont move your company forward.