Real-Time Visibility in Supply Chain Management applies the paradox theory to understand why real-time visibility expectations and aspirations do not meet supply chain realities.
Operations Management and Data Analytics Modelling: Economic Crises Perspective addresses real operation management problems in thrust areas like the healthcare and energy management sectors and Industry 4.
This book contains 13 papers from the 7th Workshop on Global Sourcing, held in Val d'Isere, France, during March 11-14, 2013, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions.
Losing contracts at rebid can have a major impact on a business: the loss of turnover and profit, of customers, skills, people and potentially reduced morale and confidence.
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.
The lasting turmoil associated with the unprecedented pandemic, triggered by the novel corona virus COVID-19, has dragged the world into a mud of uncertainty.
This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains.
Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how recent developments build upon classic models.
This book provides the tools and techniques, management principles, procedures, concepts, and methods to ensure the successful completion of an oil and gas project while also ensuring the proper design, procurement, and construction for making the project most qualitative, competitive, and economical for safer operational optimized performance.
The book aims to present a multi-dimensional view on the blockchain-driven supply chain management and its linkage with open innovation, digital technologies, supply chain sustainability, mapping, visibility, and resilience.
This book builds on the insights of Gunther Bachmann, former Secretary General for the German Sustainability Council, who spent almost 20 years advising the German government on sustainability policy.
Nachhaltigkeit darf sich nicht nur an kurzfristigen Erfolgen oder ausschließlich an finanziellen Ergebnissen orientieren, sondern muss zwangsläufig langfristige Ziele wie Stabilität, Resilienz und Flexibilität verfolgen.
Purpose & Impact is the first book to provide guidance to senior executives and professionals on how to rethink and even relaunch their careers in ways that align with wider purpose and societal impact.
Most companies today are firmly on the social and environmental issues 'bandwagon', like bees around a honey pot, from plastic in oceans through to diversity.
Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains.
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This cross-disciplinary business book develops insight into the management of businesses operating in various economic sectors that take a proactive approach to the triple dimension of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), positioning itself as a key reference for both academics and practitioners in the wide area of business management.
The concept of environmental, social and governance (ESG) is rapidly emerging as the new global industry standard and an important benchmarking tool for socially responsible investments.
The "e;golden"e; age of purchasing, in which it was relatively easy to achieve annual cost reductions of between one and three percent, has come to an end.
Die Energiebeschaffung wird aufgrund der Energiewende und der damit verbundenen steigenden Stromkosten zunehmend zu einem strategischen Faktor für den Erfolg mittelständischer Unternehmen.
Green Trade Agreements reviews and analyses the environmental provisions that have become an important characteristic of the growing number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements.
Multinationale Automobilunternehmen stehen heute vor ihrem größten Umbruch mit tiefgreifenden und diskontinuierlichen Veränderungen, ausgelöst durch vier globale Umfeldtrends: die Ausdifferenzierung der Mobilitätsnachfrage und der Antriebstechnologien, die Digitalisierung sowie den Druck der Kapitalgeber auf eine Verringerung des Kapitaleinsatzes im traditionellen Geschäft.
The supply chain management field is one of the fastestgrowing fields in our economy, given the heavygrowth in international trade as a means to accessoutsourced production opportunities to lower costsand the growth in information technology to coordinatesupply chains.
This book focuses on the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) in Latin America and examines the role of the markets in serving low-income populations as consumers, distributors, and entrepreneurs.
This volume contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenges of tropical coastal and island destinations throughout the world.
