Responsiveness, agility and flexibility shape enterprise competitiveness and demand a high level of supply chain management (SCM). The efficiency of supply chains depends not (only) on the use of optimal processes with maximal profitability, but on the use of adaptable, stable and crisis-resistant processes able to compete in a real disturbed execution environment. This is where the benefits of adaptive supply chain management (A-SCM) begin to appear: A-SCM considers supply chains as complex dynamic systems that are planned and executed under uncertainty.Adaptive Supply Chain Management covers advanced concepts and modelling techniques in supply chain management. It unites conceptual considerations of supply chains with a constructive level of engineering and its mathematical approach is based on a combined application of control theory, operations research and agent-oriented modelling. The modelling of supply chains as dynamic multi-structural systems allows the statement and solution of complex problems that reflect real-world demands.The authors provide advanced insights into supply chain dynamics, complexity and uncertainty from the perspectives of systems and control science. Adaptive Supply Chain Management also offers constructive ways to move from "one-way" partial optimization to feedback-based, closed-loop, adaptive supply chain optimization and execution management in order to achieve value chain adaptability, stability and crisis-resistance.

Adaptive Supply Chain Management will provide postgraduate students and researchers with a comprehensive view of advanced supply chain management concepts, constructive mathematical techniques and models to help them face today's challenges in supply chain management, production and logistics networks, and operations management.