DEBORAH DULL
Operationalize Circularity. Reduce Risk. Increase Profits.
Deborah Dull fell in love with supply chain almost two decades ago over menu planning and workback schedules. She has explored different industries through a supply chain lens at Microsoft, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and General Electric. She has inspired thousands of supply chain professionals to learn about Circular Supply Chains through keynote speeches, podcasts, and peer-reviewed journals.
Author of...
-Circular Supply Chain: 17 Common Questions.
-Circular Supply Chain: How to Build the Future of Sustainable Operations.
-Full Circle: Supply Chains Reimagined.
-Self-Driving Supply Chain: 5 Steps to Building Your Agentic AI Workforce.
Founder of...
Partnering with Global Leaders for an Accelerated Transition
Look around you.
Everything you see was put there by one of us. By a supply chain professional. Every material that is in our economy today is there because we planned, sourced, made, moved, and managed it to where it is now today,
the relationship we have with materials needs to change.
The Circular Economy is an idea that materials deserve another shot at adding value in our economies. If we can use the principles of circularity, we can save the planet. In supply chain, we are the guardian angels of materials and inventory, and we have the power to change how to we operate today.
Across industries and around the world, supply chain professionals ask the same questions about what circularity means for our profession. The answers to these questions lay the foundation for us to have the conversations we need to have to keep our supply chains running - even as materials inside the earth dwindle and carbon emissions are on the rise.
Questions about Circular Supply Chains are answered in this book, such as:
- Why should we use Circular Supply Chains?
- Where can I get Circular Materials?
- Can we make our supply chains shorter?
- What about technology?
- How do I take the next step?
And 12 more…
How can your supply chain drive sustainability and competitive advantage?
Circular Supply Chains by Deborah Dull is a practical guide for supply chain managers, analysts and strategists looking to shift from linear processes to circular, regenerative operations. As climate pressures rise, materials grow scarce and stakeholder expectations increase, this book shows how to embed circularity into every stage of your supply chain.
Written for professionals ready to turn ambition into action, it bridges theory and execution through strategic models, digital tools and real-world examples that support transformation at scale.
You'll learn how to:
- Map, plan and optimize supply networks for circular outcomes
- Apply digital tools like repair demand sensing and radical transparency
- Integrate regenerative principles into sourcing, planning and logistics
- Use checklists and frameworks to drive measurable change
With a clear path from today's systems to future-ready supply chains, this is the essential resource to help mid-career professionals lead with resilience, innovation and impact.
Start building circular operations that deliver on sustainability, efficiency and long-term value.
Themes include: circular economy, regenerative supply chain, sustainable sourcing, logistics innovation, digital supply tools, supply network planning
When a global supply chain crisis paralyzes Maya Patel's manufacturing company, she proposes a radical solution: what if they could repair and manufacture critical components locally, rather than depending on distant suppliers?
What begins as an emergency response quickly evolves into something more profound. Maya builds a network of repair hubs across London, connecting community repair with industrial resilience. As her team develops the technology to recover and recirculate materials locally, they create something revolutionary: a new model of circular supply chains that challenges the linear, extractive economy.
But powerful interests are threatened by this vision of local repair sovereignty. When manufacturers begin to push back against a model that extends product lifecycles instead of promoting replacement, Maya must navigate complex alliances to protect what they've built.
Full Circle: Supply Chains Reimagined is a story of transformation - personal and systemic - that reimagines our relationship with the products we use and the resources that make them. It explores how crisis can spark innovation, how repair wisdom can combine with cutting-edge technology, and how sovereignty over our supply chains might be the key to a more resilient future.
A COMPANION NOVEL TO THE GROUNDBREAKING BOOK
Full Circle: Supply Chains Reimagined brings to life the principles and practices explored in Circular Supply Chains: How to Build the Future of Sustainable Operations from Kogan Page. While the nonfiction book provides frameworks and case studies for business leaders and practitioners, this companion novel illustrates these concepts through an immersive narrative that shows what circular supply chains could mean for our communities, our economy, and our planet.
Experience the circular economy as a business model, and as a revolution in how we design, make, use, and recover the products that shape our world.
Your digital companion to Sustainable supply chain orchestration
Do you ever think about the impact you make as a supply chain leader?
You play a critical role as a catalyst and as a leader to shape a better tomorrow.
Deborah Dull and Douglas Kent invite you to 'UNLEARN' the status quo and discover the all-around importance of fostering sustainable practices in your organization.
Through a transformative framework called 'UNLEARN', you'll learn how to:
- Unify Around "The Why"
- Navigate the Sustainability Universe
- Liberate from the Status Quo
- Evolve the Supply Chain
- Amplify the Story
- Ramp up Learnings and Change
- Nurture the New Approach
Grounded in supply chain principles, this book is a paradigm-shifting invitation for actual, tangible change. Packed with compelling real-world case studies, it equips you with the mindset, strategies, and community to orchestrate a more sustainable supply chain.
Are you ready to UNLEARN the way you think about supply chains and unlock new possibilities for your organization and the world?
Start your sustainable supply chain orchestration journey by unlearning for a better tomorrow.
"We just don't have the people."
If you've spent any time in supply chain, you've heard this refrain. The annual demand to cut costs while handling more complexity. The technology implementations that take years and still leave your team living in spreadsheets. The constant squeeze that makes retaining talented employees feel impossible.
What if you could hire a workforce that changes everything?
The convergence of large language models, transformer neural networks, and purpose-built AI hardware has made the "self-driving supply chain" possible. And not as a distant dream, but as a practical reality you can implement today. But here's what most AI books get wrong: this isn't about buying software. It's about hiring digital colleagues who work alongside your human team.
Self-Driving Supply Chain provides a comprehensive, step-by-step framework for building your agentic workforce:
STEP 1: PREPARE Understand the innovations that built today's AI capabilities, from the Turing Machine to large language models. Master the seven paradigm shifts that separate organizations who succeed with AI from those who struggle. Learn the SCOR DS framework that gives you shared language for your transformation.
STEP 2: HIRE Define requirements for your AI agents just like you would for human employees. Articulate expected benefits across savings, improvements, and outcomes. Evaluate your options from embedded AI to full agentic workforce solutions. Negotiate terms that protect your interests and align costs with value.
STEP 3: ONBOARD Prepare your team, systems, and organizational knowledge. Configure your agents with goals, tools, training, and appropriate autonomy. Optimize continuously through adjustments, refinements, and expansions.
STEP 4: MANAGE Set expectations that create alignment across your hybrid workforce. Supervise both AI agents and human team members effectively. Make corrections through feedback, retraining, and parameter adjustments.
STEP 5: RESKILL Navigate external changes like regulations and market shifts. Adapt to internal changes in strategy and organization. Respond to technical changes in platforms and data sources. Evolve as the professional you're becoming.
What makes this book different:
- Practical, not theoretical. Written by a supply chain practitioner for supply chain professionals, with real examples and actionable guidance
- Human-centered approach. Treats AI implementation as a workforce transformation, not just a technology project
- Framework you can follow. Clear steps, phases, and activities organized so you know exactly what to do next
- Accessible explanations. AI concepts explained in plain language with supply chain examples (no PhD required)
- Future-focused. Addresses not just implementation but ongoing management and evolution of your agentic workforce
Perfect for:
- Supply chain leaders seeking competitive advantage through AI
- Operations professionals navigating digital transformation
- Procurement, logistics, planning, and fulfillment managers exploring automation
- Executives evaluating AI investments for their organizations
- Anyone tired of hearing "do more with less" without being given the tools to actually do it
The self-driving supply chain isn't science fiction! It's a problem-solving challenge we now have the tools to tackle. This book shows you how.
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