The global supply chain expanded significantly in the last decades of the 20th century, especially in the automobile, food, and textile industries. This growth of the globalized business era brings both challenges and motivation for researchers and practitioners with interests in logistics and supply chain management. Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Globalized Business Era provides an introduction as well as up-to-date information in the logistics and supply chain management fields. The book focuses on applying theory to practices and provides both quantitative and qualitative methods for decision makers; additionally, it details current information regarding digitalization, information technology, and optimization techniques. It is ideal for supply chain managers, executives, operations managers, business owners, suppliers, researchers, postgraduate students, laypersons, researchers, and professionals.

Unchained: Building Next Generation Supply Chain Systems for the Changing Restaurant Industry explores the vital characteristics and attributes that are critical for building efficient and successful supply chains. Unchained is organized into three distinct parts. Part I provides a background baseline knowledge of the restaurant industry, the changing agricultural and geopolitical world, and the role of foodservice supply chains as vital to the success of the foodservice industry. In Part II, the eight key pillars that are essential for creating high-performing foodservice supply chains are presented. Part III provides a diagnostic methodology for assessing the performance of a supply system, including the determination of its benefits and return on investment. Each chapter includes learning objectives, key terms, discussion questions, and a case example that runs throughout the book to support connections between critical concepts and real-world application. Unchained is an essential resource for future and current foodservice industry professionals committed to building effective supply chain systems.

Supply chain management contends with structures and processes for delivering goods and services to customers. It addresses the core functions of connected businesses to meet downstream demand. This innovative volume provides an authoritative and timely guide to the overarching issues that are ubiquitous throughout the supply chain. In particular, it addresses emerging issues that are applicable across supply chains-such as data science, financial flows, human capital, internet technologies, risk management, cyber security, and supply networks. With chapters from an international roster of leading scholars in the field, the Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management is a necessary resource for all students and researchers of the field as well as for forward-thinking practitioners.

Im strategischen Beschaffungsmanagement gewinnen vermehrt oekologische und soziale Gesichtspunkte an Bedeutung. Das neue Gesetz uber die unternehmerischen Sorgfaltspflichten zur Vermeidung von Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Lieferketten (Lieferkettengesetz) unterstreicht die Notwendigkeit fur Unternehmen, sich mit den Pflichten der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) nicht nur im eigenen Unternehmen, sondern auch in der Supply Chain auseinanderzusetzen. Haufig fehlt es jedoch an einem Verstandnis, wie die neuen Anforderungen umgesetzt werden koennen. Hier kann dieses Essential als Leitfaden dienen, um die fachspezifischen Kenntnisse zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit und CSR zu vertiefen. Es enthalt Informationen zu vorhandenen gesetzlichen Regelungen und Richtlinien, wichtigen CSR-Risiken sowie Instrumenten zur Sicherstellung von nachhaltigen Lieferketten.

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.

Supply chain management has long been a feature of industry and commerce but, with increasing demands from consumers, producers are spending more time and money investing in ways to make supply chains more sustainable. This exemplary Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive overview of current research on sustainable supply chain management. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the Handbook includes contributions from over 70 expert authors from a variety of areas including management, engineering, accounting, policy studies, innovation, and marketing. Chapters analyze the three core areas of sustainable supply chain management: environmental, economic, and social. The Handbook explores broad themes such as globalization and general organization strategies as well as examining more particular topics including particular industries, social and regulatory dimensions, and technological advances. Scholars and advanced business and management students will greatly benefit from the depth of analysis in this Handbook as well as the suggestions for directions for future research and practice. Written in an accessible style, it is also ideal for practitioners and government agencies seeking solutions to practical issues regarding sustainable supply chain management. Contributors include: A.Y. Alqahtani, M.A. Ates, S.G. Azevedo, C. Bai, P. Beske-Janssen, C. Brix-Asala, L.M.S. Campos, V. Carbone, L. Carmagnac, H. Carvalho, H.K. Chan, H.S.Y. Chen, T.C.E. Cheng, S.K. Cho, J. Dai, N. Darnall, L. Ellram, B. Fahimnia, Y. Feng, S. Goodarzi, D.B. Grant, J.H. Grimm, C. Groening, S.M. Gupta, A. Gurtu, I. Haavisto, A. Halldorsson, J.S. Hofstetter, J. Hou, J. Hu, S. Hudson, S.E. Ibrahim, C.J.C. Jabbour, M.Y. Jaber, A.D. Joshi, A. Jug, R.U. Khalid, G. Kovacs, K.-h. Lai, S. Liedke, J.J. Lim, M.K. Lim, J. Liu, A.B. Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, E. Marsillac, L. Meade, S.A. Melnyk, V. Moatti, A. Presley, J. Rezaei, Y. Sadaat, J. Sarkis, S. Schaltegger, D.G. Schniederjans, C. Searcy, S. Seuring, S. Shaw, R. Sroufe, C. Sundgren, K.H. Tan, W. Tate, M.-L. Tseng, D.A. Vazquez-Brust, M. Varsei, A. Vilmar, J. Wehner, E.W. Welch, M.G. Yalcin, A.Z. Zeng, F. Zeng, Q. Zhu, Q. Zhu

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.

Das Fachbuch beleuchtet das Thema Nachhaltiges Produktmanagement aus zwei verschiedenen Perspektiven: Zum einen aus der Sicht des Produktmanagements und zum anderen aus der Sicht des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements. Es spricht damit Interessierte und Experten beider Unternehmensbereiche an. Nach der Darstellung der zentralen Begriffe und Konzepte des Produktmanagements einerseits und der Nachhaltigkeit andererseits anhand von zwei durchgangigen Fallbeispielen werden im dritten Teil Ankerpunkte fur eine Integration identifiziert. Die Autoren behandeln dabei auch Themen, die bisher einer Integration beider Aspekte entgegenstehen und zukunftig geklart werden mussen. Alltagstaugliche Beispiele aus zwei unterschiedlichen Branchen zeigen auf, wie es moeglich ist, Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte in das Produktmanagement zu integrieren.