Innovation is increasingly considered as an enabler of business competitive advantage. More and more organizations focus on satisfying their consumer s demand of innovative and qualitative products and services by applying both technology-supported and non technology-supported innovative methods...

Today´s demand patterns constantly claim for greener products from more sustainable supply chains. Handling these customer needs puts a constant pressure on the players: Ecological and social issues arise additionally to challenges like technology management and efficiency enhancement....

"This book provides comprehensive coverage of automated supply chain management offering research, methodologies, and frameworks for researchers, graduate students, and management professionals interested in the incorporation of information systems to better support supply chain...