Five System Dynamics for Supply Chain Leaders Need to Understand in a Chaotic World

For the better part of three decades, supply chain strategy has been built around one central objective: optimization.Reduce inventory. Lower transportation costs. Consolidate suppliers. Shorten lead times. Improve asset utilization.Those strategies worked exceptionally well in an era where globalization was expanding, transportation networks were relatively stable, and disruption was treated as an occasional exception rather than a permanent operating condition.That operating environment no lon