Global Supply Chain Management Strategy, Functions, and Integration Across the Global Supply Chain

Global supply chains decide who wins. This is how they are led.

They move products, information, and value across borders, and the firms that manage them well turn that complexity into lasting advantage. This book is a clear, practical guide to how global supply chains actually work and how to lead them.

Organized around strategy, the four functional cores, and the integration that ties them together, it walks through the decisions that shape performance: diagnosing an industry's globalization potential, locating and coordinating activities, building the infrastructure and relationships a chain depends on, and delivering real value to customers. It connects established practice to AI, analytics, end-to-end visibility, and sustainability, with one throughline: balance efficiency with resilience, and never let the technology become the strategy.

Eight chapters and forty-six modules, written for three readers at once: students meeting the field for the first time, executives and certificate learners who need working command of it quickly, and practitioners who want a durable reference. A companion to Global Supply Chain Management (Hult, Closs, and Frayer, 2014), and the first volume of the G. Tomas M. Hult Global Business Series.

About the Author

G. Tomas M. Hult, PhD, is a globally recognized thought leader in international business, marketing strategy, customer satisfaction, and supply chain management. Clarivate's Web of Science has named him among the top 1% of most highly cited researchers in business and economics, and he serves on the leadership and research team of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Dr. Hult is a member of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum.