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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.
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Part 1: Sustainable supply chain in forming environmental macro responsibility.- The transformation of supply chains in closed-loop supply chains.- Innovative approaches to improve sustainability of physical distribution in Dutch agrifood supply chains.- Sustainability - indispensable part of the logistics development.- Using DMAIC for making sustainable supply chain efficient in a GRAI environment.- Ecological aspects of the implementation of logistics processes in e-commerce.- Green logistics as the basis for improving environmental efficiency of transport.- Part 2: Virtual reality based ecodesign.- Using 3D system in eco-design - case study.- The impact of eco-efficiency in production on availability of machines and equipment.- The analysis of economic and environmental effects of cooperation between enterprises and in the provision of transport - a case study.- Efficient demand management in retailing through category management
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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.
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“Efficiency in Sustainable Supply Chain presents a detailed overview of the important developments in the field of sustainable supply chains. … it covers both operational and strategic aspects related to sustainability in supply chain management (SCM) and new developments in the field. … The book may appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in industrial engineering, management, and operations research, and to professionals in manufacturing industries or product designers … .” (Interfaces, Vol. 47 (5), October, 2017)
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"Efficiency in Sustainable Supply Chain presents a detailed overview of the important developments in the field of sustainable supply chains. ... it covers both operational and strategic aspects related to sustainability in supply chain management (SCM) and new developments in the field. ... The book may appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in industrial engineering, management, and operations research, and to professionals in manufacturing industries or product designers ... ." (Interfaces, Vol. 47 (5), October, 2017)
