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title: Global Supply Chain
description: This topic examines the design, management, and optimization of international production and distribution networks. Learners will understand how to manage global logistics, mitigate supply chain risks, coordinate international suppliers, and control operational costs.
category: business-entrepreneurship
subcategory: international-business
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/global-supply-chain
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# Global Supply Chain

This topic examines the design, management, and optimization of international production and distribution networks. Learners will understand how to manage global logistics, mitigate supply chain risks, coordinate international suppliers, and control operational costs.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 4 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Supply Chain Management Review

Trade publication for supply chain executives, carrying practitioner and academic articles on sourcing, logistics, inventory, technology and risk. Regular reading keeps you current on how companies are redesigning global networks and which management practices are gaining ground.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.scmr.com/

**Tags:** supply-chain-management, logistics, procurement, trade-publication

### 2. Supply Chain Dive

Daily trade journalism from Industry Dive covering procurement, logistics, manufacturing, and regulatory shifts affecting global supply chains. Following it builds working awareness of how tariffs, disruptions, and carrier capacity move through real corporate operations.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.supplychaindive.com/

**Tags:** supply chain, news, logistics, procurement, industry trends

### 3. ASCM (APICS)

Professional body behind the CPIM, CSCP, and CLTD certifications, offering standards such as SCOR, webinars, and research reports. The site is the reference point for certification paths and the terminology employers expect practitioners to know.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.ascm.org/

**Tags:** supply chain, certification, apics, scor model, professional development

### 4. supplychainbrain.com

SupplyChainBrain is a leading news and information resource for supply chain professionals, covering logistics, procurement, technology, and strategy. It features daily news, in-depth analysis, case studies, and resources such as webinars and podcasts.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://supplychainbrain.com

**Tags:** websites, engineering-manufacturing, industrial-engineering

## Books

### 1. Global Supply Chain Management

**Author:** Matt Drake

Short managerial primer on running supply chains that cross borders, covering global sourcing, transport modes, customs, trade terms and risk. Readers learn to weigh the cost, lead-time and uncertainty trade-offs behind offshoring and international distribution decisions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1606492764?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, international-business

### 2. Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management

**Author:** John Mangan, Chandra Lalwani

University textbook covering international logistics end to end: transport, inventory, warehousing, procurement, information flows, outsourcing, sustainability and supply chain design, with case studies throughout. Readers gain a working framework for analysing and managing cross-border supply chains.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119117828?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, international-business

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