Verlagsinfo: "Fully grasp the core principles of logistics, distribution management and the supply chain, in addition to emerging trends and the latest technologies, with this definitive guide that offers clear and straightforward explanations. The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution...

This book introduces new inventory models to support decision-making when cost of externalities are jointly considered along with costs of logistics. Internalization of cost of externalities gives rise to new logistics costs estimates and functions which managers, researchers, lecturers and...

This book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers. It begins by outlining the mental shift necessary to build robust relationships with suppliers. Next, the book details strategic sourcing methodology: a...

This book is primarily intended to serve as a research-based textbook on sustainable supply chains for graduate programs in Business, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Industrial Ecology, but it should also be of interest for researchers in the broader sustainable supply chain space,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Project Management for Effective Operations Management -- Chapter 3: The Foundations of Sustainability and the Implications for Transport Modes -- Chapter 4: Business Model Innovation at the Interface between Global Production Systems and Local Demand --...

Part I Introduction and Basic Framework -- 1 What is a Supply Chain? -- 2 The Strategy-Structure-Process-Performance Framework -- Part II Static Theory of Supply Chain Management -- 3 Performance Trade-Offs -- 4 Supply Chain Strategies -- 5 Efficiency-Oriented Strategy -- 6...

Section 1: Inventory models with trade credit financing for imperfect quality items -- Chapter 1. An economic production quantity (EPQ) inventory model for deteriorating item under two-level trade credit policy with allowable shortages -- Chapter 2. Deteriorating imperfect produce inventory for...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Selection of Supply Portfolio -- Chapter 2. Selection of Static Supply Portfolio -- Chapter 3 Selection of Dynamic Supply Portfolio -- Chapter 4 Selection of Resilient Supply Portfolio -- Part II Integrated Selection of Supply Portfolio and Scheduling -- Chapter...

1. Introduction -- 2. Broad developments impacting supply chain collaboration -- 3. Logistics developments impacting horizontal collaboration -- 4. Collaboration in other industries -- 5. Literature review -- 6. Cross-chain collaboration typology -- 7. Applications of Cross-chain collaboration...

Dieses Buch stellt die Anwendung wirkungsvoller Qualitätsmethoden in der Lieferantenkette von der Produktentwicklung bis zur Fertigung vor. Die Ansätze basieren auf den Ergebnissen einer empirischen Studie, die in Zusammenarbeit mit Einkaufsleitern namhafter Unternehmen durchgeführt wurde....