This guidance note provides insights on enhancing trade facilitation to strengthen responses to the current pandemic and future health emergencies. COVID-19 has highlighted the need for new investments and reforms to prepare for future pandemics and other crises. Timely, accurate information is required to support national and international responses. This guidance note aims to help build a shared framework for understanding trade facilitation and border health issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses effective manufacturing supply chains and equal vaccine distribution, the efficient flow of vaccines and medical goods across borders, and funding modalities for trade facilitation and regional public goods.

This book is the first of its kind in attempting to identify the skills and competencies required of supply chain leaders in Asia. In 2020, McKinsey reported that they believe leaders should not just fix their supply chains temporarily, but to transform them. Reimagining supply chains to avoid past traps and meet future needs will require a comprehensive approach in reskilling supply chain professionals to build new competencies for new norms.This book showcases the results of quantitative and qualitative research, including surveys and interviews with supply chain managers across Asia, highlighting the essential skills and competencies required to be a successful supply chain manager. A framework to plan and manage supply chain talents and strategies for recruiting and retaining supply chain talents are also included.The contributors of this book include Janya Chanchaichujit, Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh (Victoria), Sumit Mitra, Sherman Ong and Juliater Simarmata.

This publication explores how innovative financing and transformative knowledge solutions can help build sustainable and resilient food systems in Asia and the Pacific. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the food security and nutrition challenges in Asia and the Pacific, where various risks and fragilities have affected the food and agriculture sector. This publication explores how innovative financing and transformative knowledge solutions can help address the financing gaps and other challenges of food systems in the region. It emphasizes the need to enhance resilience and mitigate climate change by integrating the sustainable management of natural resources, nutritional considerations, and the economic dimensions of food supply chains.

Following lockdown, the digital trust that blockchain creates for networks of remote users started to re-define relationships between customers, suppliers, partners and funders in earnest. As a technology, its ingenuity is already widely recognised. The question now is who can best deploy it in the market to raise money, make payments, negotiate deals, engage customers and manage suppliers. This title draws on the knowledge and experience of 15 top-level blockchain performers to bring a wide audience up to speed with the options and actions for building and growing a business with blockchain.

This publication analyzes the Product-Specific Rules of Origin (PSRO) of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and other free trade agreements and proposes policy options. The report compares RCEP with the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. It looks at the main rules of origin provisions of the three free trade agreements and discusses differences and similarities in how they were drafted. The study compares the stringency and leniency of RCEP PSRO with that of the other agreements and identifies where PSRO among the three are converging. Its findings provide the basis for policy recommendations to leverage RCEP to simplify rules of origin across Asia and the Pacific.

This publication features a broad suite of statistical indicators characterizing the supply-and-use interactions of economic sectors within and across 25 economies of Asia and the Pacific. The indicators include sector- and economy-specific multipliers and linkages, trade orientation and openness, participation in global value chains, patterns of product specialization, and domestic agglomeration, among many others. Supplementing these analyses are special chapters on the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the contribution of the digital economy, and the significance of activities related to real estate. All analyses and indicators draw on the Multiregional Input-Output database maintained by the Asian Development Bank.

Dieses Buch gibt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele einen UEberblick uber das Subsystem Beschaffung. Es verdeutlicht anschaulich Grundlagen, Strategien und mathematische Methoden. Die quantitativen Methoden zur Materialbedarfsplanung, zu den deterministischen und stochastischen Lagerhaltungsmodellen sowie zur Qualitatssicherung werden in ihrem Verfahrensablauf algorithmisch beschrieben und an vielen logistischen Anwendungsbeispielen anschaulich verdeutlicht. Die vierte Auflage wurde um die Themen Robotic Process Automation und Intelligent Process Automation erganzt. Zusatzlich wird eine anwendungsfreundliche Planungssoftware ("Logistik-Toolbox") als Download zur Verfugung gestellt, in der die in diesem Buch verwendeten Planungsverfahren implementiert sind. Die Loesungen koennen dabei schrittweise nachverfolgt und praxisrelevante Problemstellungen leicht geloest werden. Dies ist das dritte Buch einer vierbandigen Reihe, die sich mit strategischen und operativen Managementaufgaben der Querschnittsfunktion Logistik beschaftigt.

A broad general introduction to all essential aspects of logistics and supply chain management, set within the wider business context. The book uses well-developed pedagogy and numerous case studies, guiding the reader through the subject by retaining a strong focus on the application of theory and practical situations. Companion Website: http: //www.palgrave.com/business/waters/Home.aspx

Mit der in diesem Buch vorgestellten Methodik zur Zukunftsforschung in der Logistik werden Unternehmen in die Lage versetzt, selbststandig Logistikvisionen zu erarbeiten und diese im strategischen und operativen Bereich umzusetzen.

Dieses bewahrte Lehrbuch gibt einen umfassenden UEberblick uber die Aufgaben einer modernen Materialwirtschaft und des industriellen Einkaufs. Es behandelt sowohl Grundprobleme der Materialwirtschaft (Disposition, Beschaffungsmarktforschung, Wertanalyse, Angebotsvergleich, Verhandlungsfuhrung, Logistik, Beschaffungspolitik, internationale Beschaffung, IT-Einsatz, Lieferantenmanagement, Organisation) als auch ausgesuchte Spezialprobleme (betriebliche Abfallwirtschaft, Stichprobenkontrolle, Preisstrukturanalyse, Controlling in der Materialwirtschaft). Alle Kapitel enthalten UEbungsfragen und -aufgaben, die die Erarbeitung des Stoffes erleichtern und eine Selbstkontrolle ermoeglichen. Die 11. Auflage ist auf dem neuesten Stand und um die Themen Internationale Beschaffung und e-procurement erganzt.

"This book addresses the challenges associated with managing global offshoring strategies. Offshoring and offshore outsourcing are hardly new phenomena. What is new is that information technology creates new opportunities for geographically dispersed business activities and enables the fragmentation of the value chain for ""traditional"" production and service companies. The pace of offshoring is likely to gain further momentum. The authors' intention in this book is to ""put a face"" on some Danish companies as they contemplate and engage in offshoring projects. When selecting the cases, the authors chose a diverse set that exemplifies the complicated range of challenges that companies face when they migrate products or services. All of the cases were developed on the basis of in-depth field research and close collaboration with the respective company managers. The book targets bachelor, master and MBA students taking courses on global strategy. It can be used in conjunction with a set of readings and articles on global strategy issues. Although the book is meant to serve as teaching material, the authors hope that business professionals also find inspiration and interesting insights applicable to their own organizations as they search for global offshoring opportunities."

Der letzte Schritt eines Paketzustellungsprozesses, die sogenannte letzte Meile, steht vor wachsenden Herausforderungen. Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Trends, wie die Urbanisierung und die zunehmende Bedeutung der oekologischen Nachhaltigkeit, erfordern eine Umgestaltung der letzten Meile. Daruber hinaus wachsen auch die Anspruche der Kunden. Die Empfanger erwarten zunehmend individualisierte und personalisierte Zustelloptionen, weshalb neue Zustellkonzepte erforderlich sind. In diesem Zusammenhang kann der Einsatz innovativer Technologien aus dem Bereich der Logistik 4.0 und ihrer Kernelemente Konnektivitat und Digitalisierung Chancen bieten, die Idee einer Last Mile 4.0 zu realisieren und die aktuellen Herausforderungen zu bewaltigen.