Operations strategy -- Process types -- Process layout types -- Facility design: supply, capacity and location -- Process technology -- Product and service design -- Process design -- Job design -- Operations planning and control -- Capacity management -- Inventory management -- Lean operations...

This book contributes a basic framework for and specific insights into interdisciplinary connections between production, logistics, and traffic subsystems. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of interdisciplinarity in value-added networks and freight...

New measures have opened up insights into the extent and complexity of global production networks. The chapters in this timely book deploy new tools to understand how global value chains change the nature of global economic interdependence, and to assess how that in turn changes our...