Supply Chain Strategy

Supply Chain Strategy: Lessons From the Front Line is a practitioner's field guide for leaders navigating complex, fast-moving operating environments.

Drawing on more than twenty years of leading global supply chains, Nishad R. Gadgil examines why operating models fracture, how complexity silently accumulates and what leaders can do before performance begins to unravel.

The book moves through four interconnected dimensions of supply chain leadership:

Diagnosis - understanding why systems break and how growth creates hidden operational strain

Signal - improving forecasting, interpreting error and bias and using lead time as a strategic weapon

Architecture - building stronger planning processes, decision structures, Centers of Excellence and AI-ready foundations

Awareness - developing the feedback habits, resilience, energy and focus required to lead under pressure

This is not a textbook or a collection of abstract models. It is a practitioner's guide shaped by real decisions, real trade-offs and consequences that were immediate and visible.

With a foreword by Dr. Sumantra Sengupta, this book offers supply chain managers, business leaders, planners, finance professionals, operators, consultants and students a clear, grounded approach to building supply chains that are more resilient, responsive and strategically aligned.

Compose. Conduct. Connect.