Introduction : what the book is all about -- Acknowledgements -- Reader's guide -- About the author and the motivation for this book -- Why lean SCM today? -- Supply chain management in process industries -- Guiding principles of lean SCM planning : facing VUCA challenges -- Fundamentals of lean...

Purpose: In order to keep up with the automation Smart Factories will bring into the market, procurement logistics has to be redesigned to ensure self-organizing production. The purpose of this paper is to examine the future changes of the procurement processes as well as the further role of...