This book provides a framework for integrating information management in supply chains. Current trends in business practice have made it necessary to explore the potential held by information integration with regard to environmental aspects. Information flow integration provides an opportunity to focus on the creation of a more "green" supply chain. However, it is currently difficult to identify the impact of information integration on greening a supply chain in a wide range of practical applications. Accordingly, this book focuses on the potential value of information integration solutions in terms of greening supply chain management. It covers the following major topics: Application of information flow standards in the supply chain Information systems and technological solutions for integrating information flows in supply chains The Internet of Things and the industry 4.0 concept, with regard to the integration of supply chains Modeling and simulation of logistics processes Decision-making tools enabling the greening of supply chains

The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability. The research and its outcomes presented here provide theoretical and empirical studies on efficiency analysis in the supply chain, including operational, economic, environmental and social aspects. This book sheds new light on the efficiency-assessment framework for practitioners and includes essential tips on how to improve the sustainability of supply-chains operations.

The book focuses on efficiency analysis in enterprises and describes a broader supply-chain context to support improved sustainability. The research and its outcomes presented here provide theoretical and empirical studies on efficiency analysis in the supply chain, including operational, economic, environmental and social aspects. This book sheds new light on the efficiency-assessment framework for practitioners and includes essential tips on how to improve the sustainability of supply-chains operations.

The book presents the issue of controlling supply chains in a comprehensive manner across enterprises and throughout the supply chain with particular emphasis on market-oriented integrated management. Operational controlling in the supply chain supports enterprise management and creates a supra-functional management system that supports management employees in decision-making and creating mechanisms for effective and efficient management. The great interest by managers for tools of operational controlling is due to the need for a system analysis of the impact of adopted methods and scenarios for the management of processes (e.g. supply, production, distribution, sales, warehousing, and transportation, inventory) on the financial and market results of the enterprise, and anticipatory analysis and multivariate simulation of results for operational activities. The authors indicate the systemic importance of control resulting from the need for relating financial feedback (eg: revenues, costs, and return on assets) and operational feedback (eg: performance, efficiency, level of utilisation, and reliability), and for shaping the factors of operational management - products, processes and resources - which determine the result. This book includes practical issues of the enterprises strategic and operational controlling, taking into account the methods of management accounting, cost calculation and analysis of operational efficiency, controlling of processes in the supply chain, balanced scorecard, the SCOR model, analysis and engineering of values, and information management systems.

This book provides a framework for integrating information management in supply chains. Current trends in business practice have made it necessary to explore the potential held by information integration with regard to environmental aspects. Information flow integration provides an opportunity to focus on the creation of a more "green" supply chain. However, it is currently difficult to identify the impact of information integration on greening a supply chain in a wide range of practical applications. Accordingly, this book focuses on the potential value of information integration solutions in terms of greening supply chain management. It covers the following major topics: Application of information flow standards in the supply chain Information systems and technological solutions for integrating information flows in supply chains The Internet of Things and the industry 4.0 concept, with regard to the integration of supply chains Modeling and simulation of logistics processes Decision-making tools enabling the greening of supply chains