Supply Chain Management

Supply chain managers can impact sustainability in areas such as packaging and transportation.

How have strategies for supply chain design changed? Two leading thinkers offer insights.

Spot markets can be used to limit exposure.

Distorted information along a supply chain can lead to tremendous inefficiencies. How can companies mitigate them?

For managers, the challenge of understanding nonmarket forces — government, interest groups, activists, and the public — is frequently more difficult than understanding the market environment. The author develops a strategy system of principles, frameworks, and action plans to deal with the issues, in-stitutions, interests, and information that characterize the nonmarket environment. He uses the concept of a rent chain, analogous to the value chain, to show how com-panies can participate in policy-setting processes and generate leverage to their own benefit.