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In April 2018 more than 150 researchers from 16 different countries
convened at MIT for the second SCALE Latin American Conference on
Supply Chain Management and Logistics (SCM&L). This edited book
presents 18 papers on SCML in Latin America which emerged from this
conference. As a region with more than 640 million people, and an
economy that grows faster than those of developed regions, Latin
America is the subject of large infrastructure projects and
heightened interest from multinational companies. With contributors
spanning eleven different countries, and comprising MIT faculty and
researchers, and academics from prestigious Latin American
institutions, this collection covers a variety of relevant topics
in SCM&L for the region, and also addresses its lack of cases
and applied examples. With cases from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico,
and Paraguay, this book breaks fresh ground by looking at risk
analysis, and small firms supply chain management. Making a solid
contribution to the regional needs for SCM&L literature for
education, research, and practice, this book is relevant to
researchers and professionals living and operating in the region,
as well as in developing economies beyond.
Latin America is a well recognized and growing market, but its poor
infrastructure, explosive urbanization, expensive and inefficient
logistics, and multiple social problems continue to pose major
problems to logistics professionals and academics. The uniqueness
and complexity of these issues have long daunted scholars, and
there remains an important gap in the literature around Latin
American supply chain management and logistics (SCM&L). Supply
Chain Management and Logistics in Latin America brings together
leading scholars across Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru,
Panama, and the USA in order to address this gap. The chapters
collected here, all of which are drawn from selected papers
presented at the 2016 MIT SCALE Latin American Conference on
Logistics and Supply Chain Management, offer perspectives from five
different countries-Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Peru-and
provide insights into cases and new methods written by people who
have faced the challenges they discuss. The authors cover a broad
range of subjects: in addition to general contributions to
qualitative and quantitative methods in supply chain management and
coverage of cases of global importance such as the Panama Canal
expansion, they offer insights into regionally specific problems
around freight corridors in Colombia, reverse logistics and
recycling in Colombia, supply risk management in Colombia, and
socially oriented logistics in low-income communities in Peru.
Since Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions in the
world, with about eighty percent of the population living in
cities, questions around urban logistics also receive heavy
coverage, with four chapters discussing issues unique to very
high-density cities and megacities such as Sao Paulo, Rio de
Janeiro, Bogota, and Quito. For its explorations of important
themes, methods, and local topics within a crucial and
ever-expanding market, Supply Chain Management and Logistics in
Latin America is a valuable resource for educators, researchers,
and practitioners.
This volume showcases the presentations and discussions delivered
at the 2018 POMS International Conference in Rio. Through a
collection of selected papers, it is possible to review the impact
and application of operations management for social good, with
contributions across a wide range of topics, including:
humanitarian operations and crisis management, healthcare
operations management, sustainable operations, artificial
intelligence and data analytics in operations, product innovation
and technology in operations management, marketing and operations
management, service operations and servitization, logistics and
supply chain management, resilience and risk in operations,
defense, and tourism among other emerging Operations Management
issues. The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is
one of the most important and influential societies in the subject
of Production Engineering and, as an international professional and
academic organization, represents the interests of professionals
and academics in production management and operations around the
world.
This volume showcases the presentations and discussions delivered
at the 2018 POMS International Conference in Rio. Through a
collection of selected papers, it is possible to review the impact
and application of operations management for social good, with
contributions across a wide range of topics, including:
humanitarian operations and crisis management, healthcare
operations management, sustainable operations, artificial
intelligence and data analytics in operations, product innovation
and technology in operations management, marketing and operations
management, service operations and servitization, logistics and
supply chain management, resilience and risk in operations,
defense, and tourism among other emerging Operations Management
issues. The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is
one of the most important and influential societies in the subject
of Production Engineering and, as an international professional and
academic organization, represents the interests of professionals
and academics in production management and operations around the
world.
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