Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road : Strategy, Performance, and Risk

Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, and Hungary. It takes a results-oriented, comparative approach to supply chain management covering structural, strategic, and operational topics.

The book first presents how the historical Silk Road supply chains operated and then provides new and interesting examples from different countries the Silk Road passed, from China to Europe.The text demonstrates that the supply chain concept and its related practices are not new, per se, and invented recently in the West. Rather, it was practiced for centuries along the Silk Road and became the foundation for today’s global supply chains. Against this backdrop, the book explores the differences and similarities along the Silk Road in the supply chain management process and what can be learned from them.

As supply chains become longer, leaner, and more scattered around the globe, performance and risk become two sides of a coin. Bringing together a diverse team of experts from academia and the business world, the book’s coverage spans not only regions, but industries. This fresh perspective provides insights for assessing performance and hedging risk and opens up new directions for research.

Preface

Part I : Supply Chain Strategy on the Silk Road
Chapter 1 : Silk Road Supply Chains : A Historical Perspective
Chapter 2 : The Silk Road Linking Artisans in India to Designers in Italy and World Markets
Chapter 3 : Logistics Management Insights from the Silk Road Geography
Chapter 4 : Formal and Informal Financial Institutions and Entrepreneurship : The Case of Bazaars and Microfinance in Central Asia
Chapter 5 : Israel : A Start-Up Nation in a Global Supply Chain Context : The Revival of a Virtual Silk Road
Chapter 6 : Decoding Supply Chain Leadership in India

Part II : Supply Chain Performance on the Silk Road
Chapter 7 : Borusan Lojistik : Winning in the 3PL Market
Chapter 8 : Crossdocking Insights from a Third Party Logistics Firm in Turkey
Chapter 9 : Balance of Power between Buyer and Supplier : The Case of Chinese and Western Companies
Chapter 10 : Outsourcing Design to Asia : ODM Practices
Chapter 11 : Milk Collection at Nestle Pakistan Ltd.
Chapter 12 : The Role of Hungarian Railway on the New Silk Road

Part III : Supply Chain Risk on the Silk Road
Chapter 13 : Private-Humanitarian Supply Chain Partnerships on the Silk Road
Chapter 14 : Incorporating Harvest, Maturity, Yield, and Demand Risk in Planning for Agricultural Supply Chains for Premium Products
Chapter 15 : Managing Procurement Risks in Turkish Machinery Industry : The Case of Renkler Makina
Chapter 16 : Supply Chain Risk and Sourcing Strategies : Automotive Industry in Iran

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