GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE AGE OF AI: Strategies and Emerging Technologies

The rise of AI and its convergence with emerging technologies like IoT, dgtl twins, robotics, and blockchain is revolutionizing multiple industries. This book reveals how emerging technologies can fortify supply chains against vulnerabilities and reshape them into sustainable, resilient and efficient systems. It offers a comprehensive explanation of these technologies and their practical applications, backed by compelling case studies.The COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged public awareness of supply chains, and geopolitical crises have intensified this awareness. These events revealed vulnerabilities in supply chains, emphasizing the urgent need for resilience and sustainability. The book illustrates how AI and emerging technologies can fulfil this need. It provides lessons learned from these and other occurrences to plan, prepare, and build a path forward.This book begins by tracing the evolution of the global supply chain since World War II. It then explores traditional technologies utilized to increase supply chain efficiencies, followed by chapters providing a deep dive into cutting-edge emerging technological innovations and how they are transforming the supply chain and strengthening it against vulnerabilities. It concludes with diverse perspectives on the path forward. Each of the seven chapters is enriched with relevant case studies that illustrate the tangible impacts of these technological solutions.This book is essential reading for anyone interested in AI and emerging technologies in supply chains. It is ideal for academics and students - postgraduate and advanced undergraduate - and as a practical guide for industry professionals, corporate executives, and government officials, to address supply chain management issues and apply technologies and systems for optimization. The case studies have links to online resources for further exploration and can be used as student assignments.Contents: A Great Awakening Brief History of Supply Chain Management and Traditional Technologies Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics (DA) Convergence of Emerging Technologies with AI - IoT, Dgtl Twins, and Autonomous Vehicles Robotics, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) Impact the Supply Chain Securing Supply Chains from Vulnerabilities: Using Emerging Technologies Including Blockchain and Quantum Computing The Way Forward Readership: For researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in global supply chain management courses, with topics that include technology and systems, or logistics courses. The book is also suitable for industry professionals/practitioners, corporate executives, and government officials. Dr Helena S Wisniewski is a transformative leader with extensive executive experience across industry, government, academia, and public and private boards. A Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), she is a successful technological entrepreneur, having launched and exited multiple tech startups.She is the inaugural Marion Porter Endowed Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Alaska Anchorage's College of Business and Public Policy (CBPP), where she also chairs the Department of Management, Marketing, Logistics, and Business Analytics. She spearheads AI initiatives at UAA, including developing CBPP's first AI course, co-founding the Alaska Data Science & AI Lab, and creating UAA's AI webinar series. Additionally, she teaches the graduate course in Global Supply Chain Management Technology and Systems and courses in Entrepreneurship.Previously, as Vice Provost for Research and Graduate School Dean, she advanced university research and entrepreneurship. She founded the Arctic Domain Awareness Center, securing its designation as a DHS Center of Excellence - the first in Alaska. As Vice President for Research at Stevens Institute of Technology, she tripled research funding and established commercial ventures. At Seton Hall University, she served as Director of Research and Chair of Computer and Decisions Sciences Department.As a Corporate Director at Lockheed Corporation Headquarters and Vice President at Titan Corporation and ANSER, she led major technology initiatives and partnerships. At DARPA, she initiated and directed groundbreaking advances in science, mathematics, engineering, and AI - neural networks, as Program Manager of the Applied and Computational Mathematics Program she created. She also served at the CIA.An accomplished author, she has published extensively in top journals, and co-authored the book Academic Entrepreneurship. She is a distinguished speaker internationally on AI, dynamical systems, and entrepreneurship and serves on the editorial boards of leading technology journals, including as special editor of AI Education, a new NAI journal.Dr Wisniewski received numerous awards for her outstanding leadership, teaching, entrepreneurship, and contributions to technology and science from universities, industry, the federal government, and IEEE Women in Engineering featured her as a 'Prolific Innovator.' She earned a PhD in Mathematics from the Graduate Center of CUNY, an MS from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a BA from William Paterson University, where she is celebrated as a distinguished alumna.'This book explores how AI and new technologies are reshaping supply chains. It offers a thorough review of major geopolitical events since World War II that have influenced supply networks, while also examining potential future developments. The text serves as an essential reference for scholars, government officials, and industry experts seeking to understand the evolving landscape of global supply chains and technological integration.' - Dr Todd McAllisterDirector, Global Supply Chain & LogisticsNational Defense University, The Eisenhower School, USA 'This book provides insights and vision into how emerging technologies transform global supply chains. It is an excellent source for understanding supply chain current and future directions.' - Dr Tony Tether, PhDDARPA Director 2001 to 2009 'Professor Helena Wisniewski is a very creative, interdisciplinary scholar and inventor whom I have known and admired for many years. Her book, Global Supply Chains in the Age of AI: Strategies and Emerging Technologies details how artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies have impacted, and will continue to impact, supply networks that are essential in global trade. This book is a 'must read' for those who are interested in the future of global supply chains, technology, and AI's role within it.' - Robert Duncan, PhDPresident's Distinguished Chair in Physics, Texas Tech University, USA