"This book features an inclusive overview of various management practices that contribute to the sustainability efforts of an organization, highlighting successful techniques being implemented and utilized by different companies"--Provided by publisher.

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Supply Chain Management -- Chapter 1 The Growing Demand for Supply Chain Management -- Defining Supply...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Key Concepts of Supply Chain Management -- Nothing Entirely New . . . Just a Significant Evolution -- How the Supply Chain Works -- Production -- Inventory -- Location -- Transportation -- Information -- The Evolving...

The purpose of this book is to explore the ways that industries, under the pressures of global competition, balance sustained industrial competitiveness and robustness against major disasters. The book focuses mainly on the impact of disasters on supply chains for manufactured (mainly tradable)...