Global Supply Chain Management
Businesses need to lead ‘transformational change’ in order to tackle the most urgent threats
facing the planet and its people, including a radical overhaul of supply chains… We must work
together, because the engine of global business – its supply chain – is broken, and requires
transformational, cross-industry collaboration to fix it,” Grant F. Reid, CEO Mars Company.
Based on the above predictive statement before the advent of current pandemic situation, you
are asked to choose a sector/industry (e.g., food, technology, healthcare, retail, services,
automotive), and critically:
i. Discuss the supply chain visibility and agility, i.e., the ability of companies in the chosen
sector/industry to build and manage more cost-effective, efficient, responsible and
customer-focused supply chains given the disruption caused by COVID-19.
ii. Identify both internal and external COVID-19 risks for the companies in the
sector/industry and discuss how the companies build supply chain resilience to quantify
and rebalance those risks by emphasising cross-industry collaboration.
iii. Discuss how state-of-the-art technologies and/or new forms of supply chains (e.g.,
Additive Manufacturing, Big Data analytics, Internet of Things, Omnichannel, blockchain)
help companies within the chosen sector to tackle those urgent supply chain threats and
remain competitive during and after the pandemic.
