In a decentralized supply chain, most of the supply chain agents may not share information due to confidentiality policies, quality of information, or different system incompatibilities. Every actor holds its own set of information and attempts to maximize its objective (minimizing costs/minimizing inventory holdings) based on the available settings. Therefore, the agents control their own activities with the objective of improving their own competitiveness, which leads them to make decisions that maximize their local performance by ignoring the other agents or even the final consumer. These decisions are myopic because they do not consider the performance of all the partners to satisfy the consumer. Demand Forecasting and Order Planning in Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics is a collection of innovative research that focuses on demand anticipation, forecasting, and order planning as well as humanitarian logistics to propose original solutions for existing problems. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, information sharing, and operations management, this book is ideally designed for supply chain managers, logistics personnel, business executives, management experts, operation industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and students who want to improve their understanding of supply chain coordination in order to be competitive in the new era of globalization.

This publication presents a cost-effective Oreduced informationO approach for estimating purchasing power parities (PPPs). The approach can generate more firmly based estimates of PPPs, price level indexes, and measures of real (PPP-based) expenditures than conventional extrapolation methods. The results include PPP-based gross domestic product and its major aggregates of individual consumption expenditure by households and nonprofit institutions serving households, government final consumption expenditure, gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories and acquisitions less disposals of valuables, and balance of exports and imports.

This is an educational book outlining how procurement has evolved and how it has to continue to evolve to incorporate ethics and sustainability. With lots of factual content, worked examples from the author's own experience and handy hints to help procurement professionals ensure that they are acting ethically and promoting sustainability throughout their supply chains, it has been written with an easy-to-read and digest style, free from "theory dump" situations and in a relatable style to people within and aspiring to enter the profession. Whilst aimed at procurement workers, the book will provide information and guidance which will be useful to sales representatives, HR departments as well as marketing and accountancy teams. This is because procurement is a function that is integral to any organization and has to work cross-functionally throughout a business if ethical and sustainable practice is to be introduced and upheld.

An Anthology in Modern Supply Chain Management Strategies provides students with a collection of readings that explain the concept of supply chain management in simple, everyday language. The chapters feature modern, recognizable examples, rendering the subject relatable and engaging. The anthology begins by providing students with an introduction and definition of supply chain management. Each following chapter addresses a critical concept related to supply chain management from an introductory perspective. Specific topics include inventory management, forecasting, logistical processes, sustainable supply management, and more. After each reading, follow-up questions help students further their understanding by encouraging them to reevaluate the chapter after reading it. Developed to pique students' interest in the field and present foundational information in an easy-to-understand manner, An Anthology in Modern Supply Chain Management Strategies is an ideal textbook for courses in business.

Nachstehende leilen verdanken ihre Entstehung einer Studienreise durch Ost- und Mittelkanada, die ich im Frtihiahr und Sommer 1911 als Begleiter des vortragenden Rats im Reichsmarineamt und ausser- ordentlichen Professors an der Universitat Berlin, Herrn Wirkl. Admi- ralitatsrat Dr. Kobner, unternahm. Die Studie verfolgt den lweck, aile an wirtschaftlicher Expansion Deutschlands interessierten Kreise auf die reichen Moglichkeiten auf- merksam zu machen, die Kanada, in kommerzieIler und industrieIler Hinsicht bietet. Keineswegs ist beabsichtigt, in dem ersten Teile der Arbeit eine erschOpfende wissenschaftIiche DarsteIlung der wirtschaft- lichen Orundlagen des Landes zu geben, meine Absicht ist vielmehr, Anregungen zu geben und zu zeigen, weIche schnelle Entwicklung Kanada genommen hat und weIche weiteren lukunftsaus- sichten vorhanden sind. Dabei soIlen in der Hauptsache soIche Punkte beriicksichtigt werden, die in der bisher erschienenen deutschen Literatur wenig beachtet worden sind. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit soli bei der SchLiderung der Eisen- und Stahlindustrie vor Augen flihren, wie ge- waltig ietzt schon der 'Sedarf des Landes und die Marktlage in den einzelnen Artikeln ist, so wie sie sich nach der Anschauung des Ver- fassers und den ihm erteilten Informationen darstellt. Als statistisches Material sind ausschliesslich die amtlichen kanadischen Statistiken be- nutzt worden, wobei zu beriicksichtigen ist, dass die lahlen flir 1911 nur vorlaufige sind. 1m wesentlichen werden sie aber der Wirklich- keit entsprechen.

This book gathers selected research articles from the International Conference on Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing System (ICIPDIMS 2019), held at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. The book discusses latest methods and advanced tools from different areas of design and manufacturing technology. The main topics covered include design methodologies, industry 4.0, smart manufacturing, and advances in robotics among others. The contents of this book are useful for academics as well as professionals working in industrial design, mechatronics, robotics, and automation.

Companies across different industries are launching technology-enabled (digital) business transformation programs to improve their strategic, tactical, and operational supply chain processes. The greatest challenges that they are facing include the lack of preparation and knowledge of the digital transformation life cycle and poorly addressing or neglecting the ""people-related"" aspects of them. Therefore, improvement initiatives have been short-lived or incomplete, and expected business benefits have not been achieved or materialized. Technology Optimization and Change Management for Successful Digital Supply Chains is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of digital business transformation programs to improve strategic, tactical, and operational supply chain processes. While highlighting topics such as maturity models, predictive analysis, and communication planning, this publication explores the limited literature in the field of digital supply chain optimization and business transformation, and complements it with practical and proven tactics from the industry. This book is ideally designed for program managers, engineers, students, and practitioners seeking current research on the field's latest best practices on digital supply chain enablement.

Big Data und Data Science sind Trends, die sowohl in der Wissenschaft als auch in Unternehmen auf grosses Interesse stossen. Dieses essential zeigt einen konzeptionellen Rahmen auf, um die Grundlagen von Big Data und Data Science besser zu verstehen. Einkaufsentscheider und Einkaufsorganisationen koennen dann aufbauend auf der Beschaffungsdigitalisierung sowie weiteren Datenquellen ein Big Data Warehouse konzipieren, welches die Voraussetzung schafft, um wichtige Beschaffungsprobleme zu loesen. Analytische Methoden werden genauso beleuchtet, wie neue Fahigkeiten in bereichsubergreifenden Teams. Abschliessend werden 30 konkrete Anwendungsfalle von Big Data fur die strategische Beschaffung vorgestellt.

Supply chains are the lifeblood of any business, bridging the distance between producer and customer, supply and demand. However, for a long time leaders have considered supply chain management to be a support, cost-added activity, something best kept out of sight and out of mind. Instead, this guide's purpose is to convince business leaders that supply chain management can be used as a business leverage for value creation and competitive advantage. Now more than ever, agile and resilient supply chains are vital in coping with uncertain markets and volatile world events, driving sustainable development, boosting current business models, and even simulating the creation of new ones. This book sets out the terms and paradigms necessary for an understanding of the supply chain, illuminates the types of value supply chain management can provide to businesses, and covers the solutions that business leaders can implement to reap the benefits of a value-creation supply chain approach. Next Generation Supply Chains breaks down this complex, nuanced field with helpful explanations, detailed diagrams and testimonies from leading businesses, laying out why an understanding of supply chain management is integral to any business leader. Written by Michel Fender, an expert with over thirty years' industry experience in advisory, training, technical and management capacities, this is an essential guide to the subject.

Predictive analytics refers to making predictions about the future based on different parameters which are historical data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. This book provides the most recent advances in the field along with case studies and real-world examples. It discusses predictive modeling and analytics in reliability engineering and introduces current achievements and applications of artificial intelligence, data mining, and other techniques in supply chain management. It covers applications to reliability engineering practice, presents numerous examples to illustrate the theoretical results, and considers and analyses case studies and real-word examples. The book is written for researchers and practitioners in the field of system reliability, quality, supply chain management, and logistics management. Students taking courses in these areas will also find this book of interest.

Global capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazon depend on the work of millions in docks, warehouses and logistics centres to keep their goods moving. This is the global supply chain, and, if the chain is broken, capitalism grinds to a halt. This book looks at case studies across the world to uncover a network of resistance by these workers who, despite their importance, often face vast exploitation and economic violence. Experiencing first hand wildcat strikes, organised blockades and boycotts, the authors explore a diverse range of case studies, from South China dockworkers to the transformation of the port of Piraeus in Greece, and from the Southern California logistics sector, to dock and logistical workers in Chile and unions in Turkey.