Techniques, Tools and Methodologies Applied to Global Supply Chain Ecosystems

This book presents the latest developments concerning techniques, tools, and methodologies in supply chain ecosystems. It gathers contributions from a variety of experts, who analyze a range of case studies and industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, agricultural, healthcare, humanitarian logistics, and urban goods distribution, to name but a few.
The book is chiefly intended to meet the needs of two sectors: firstly, the academic sector, so as to familiarize students, professors, and researchers with the tools that are now being used to optimize supply chains; and secondly, the industrial and managerial sector, so that supply chain management practitioners can benefit from methods and tools that are yielding valuable results in other contexts.

List of contents

Impact of managers and human resources on the supply chain performance.- The role of employees' performance and external knowledge transfer on the supply chain flexibility.- Modern slavery in the global supply chains: the challenges of legislations and mandatory disclosures.

Summary

This book presents the latest developments concerning techniques, tools, and methodologies in supply chain ecosystems. It gathers contributions from a variety of experts, who analyze a range of case studies and industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, agricultural, healthcare, humanitarian logistics, and urban goods distribution, to name but a few.
The book is chiefly intended to meet the needs of two sectors: firstly, the academic sector, so as to familiarize students, professors, and researchers with the tools that are now being used to optimize supply chains; and secondly, the industrial and managerial sector, so that supply chain management practitioners can benefit from methods and tools that are yielding valuable results in other contexts.

Product details

• Assisted by: Giner Alor-Hernández (Editor), Liliana Avelar-Sosa (Editor), Lil Avelar-Sosa et al (Editor), Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz (Editor), Cuauhtémo Sánchez-Ramírez (Editor), Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030264871
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3026487-1
• No. of pages: 457
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 248 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 904 g
• Illustrations: XXXVIII, 457 p. 99 illus., 74 illus. in color.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; B, Artificial Intelligence, Einkaufs- und Supply-Management, Supply Chain Management, engineering, Operations Management, Computational Intelligence, Purchasing & supply management, Business logistics