A forward-looking guide to designing the next generation of supply chains—where advanced technology, people, resilience, and sustainability work together.
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Supply Chain 5.0 moves beyond digitalization alone. It introduces a new paradigm for supply chain design. One that places humans at the center of advanced technologies such as AI, automation, analytics, and connected systems.
Rather than focusing only on efficiency and profitability, the book emphasizes resilience, ethical decision-making, sustainability, and collaboration between people and intelligent machines. It provides leaders with frameworks and real-world perspectives to navigate uncertainty and long-term transformation.
This book is written for leaders and practitioners shaping the future of supply chains, across industry, consulting, and academia.
Assistant Professor at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on logistics, supply chain strategy, and emerging technologies, with publications in leading academic journals.
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Supply Chain 5.0 is a bold call to reimagine how we design, lead, and transform the systems that power global commerce. In a world defined by disruption, accelerating technology, rising regulation, and shifting customer expectations, this book reframes supply chains as human-centered, resilient, and sustainable ecosystems, not just operational networks.
Blending academic rigor with real-world insight, the authors introduce practical frameworks such as the HUMANS Leadership Framework, the Supply Chain 5.0 Readiness Maturity Model, and a comprehensive end-to-end Playbook spanning Plan, Source, Transform, Order, Fulfill, Return, and Orchestrate.
From responsible AI and hybrid human-machine collaboration to ethical sourcing, regenerative supply chains, and cybersecurity in hyperconnected environments, Supply Chain 5.0 equips leaders to align purpose, people, and performance. More than a technology upgrade, this is a mindset shift which is empowering organizations to build adaptive, secure, and future-ready supply chains that are as humane as they are intelligent.
