Shardul Phadnis is an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Asia School of Business. Previously, he served as the Associate Professor and Director of Research at MIT SCALE Network's Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation. His research explores the intersection of supply chains and strategic management: how organizations create value by orchestrating supply chain operations, and how strategy processes influence adaptability of supply chain structures and processes.

Chris Caplice serves as the Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics where he is responsible for the planning and management of the research, education, and corporate outreach programs for the center. He created and currently serves as Director of the MITx MicroMaster's Program in Supply Chain Management and founded the MIT FreightLab. In addition to his work at MIT, he serves as Chief Scientist at DAT Freight & Analytics.

Presents a process to create scenarios, illustrating it with in-depth cases of the three types of organizations

Provides guidelines for assessing the strategic decision-making process described in the book

Explains how to answer the question "did scenario planning work" in a particular process

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Managing Supply Chains: Three Organizational Roles.- Chapter 3: Scenario Planning: A Tool for Organizational Learning and Foresight.- Chapter 4: Designing Scenarios to Aid Strategic Planning in Supply Chains.- Chapter 5: Scenario Creation in Supply Chain Contexts.- Chapter 6: Scenario Application: General Steps.- Chapter 7: Scenario Application in Supply Chain Contexts.- Chapter 8: Learning from Scenario Applications.- Chapter 9: Appendix.