Part I -- Chapter 1. Container logistics chain and empty container repositioning (ECR) -- Part II -- Chapter 2. Closed-form optimal ECR policy in a single depot with random demand -- Chapter 3. Optimal ECR policy in two-depot stochastic systems: periodic-review -- Chapter 4. Optimal ECR policy...

Chapter 1 Basics in Lean Management -- Chapter 2 The cultural Change towards Lean Management -- Chapter 3 Kaizen: Continuous Improvements in small Steps -- Chapter 4 Waste and Value-added -- Chapter 5 Lean Management as part of the corporate Strategy -- Chapter 6 Leadership and Empowerment --...

This book presents the latest developments in optimization and optimal control models; exact, approximate and hybrid methods; and their applications in lean and green supply chains. It examines supply chain network design and modeling, closed loop supply chains, and lean, green, resilient and...

1. The Modern Lean Enterprise -- Part I: Rising of the Digital Economy -- 2. The Displacement of the Economy -- 3. The Post Industrial Factory -- Part II: Lean in Theory -- 4. Principles of Lean Production -- 5. Lean Flow: A Method -- 6. Successful Implementation -- 7. Modern Lean Thinking --...

Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Sustainable excellence and continuous improvement approaches in SMEs -- Achieving environmental excellence through Lean and green in SMEs -- Lean six sigma and sustainability: from total quality to total sustainability --...

Chapter 1: Get into the Entrepreneurial Mindset -- Part 1: Five Lessons from Lean Startup Thinking -- Chapter 2: Start with the Customer in Mind -- Chapter 3: Define and Communicate Mission and Vision -- Chapter 4: Synthesize an Integrative Operating Model -- Chapter 5: Identify Metrics that...

Basics Lean Production: Challenges -- Waste -- Stabilization -- Flow, Tact and Pull -- Value Stream -- Perfection -- Standardization -- Continuous Improvement -- Assembly -- Manufacturing -- Production Systems -- Advanced Lean Management: Administration -- Product Design/Development -- Planning...

Chapter 1: Lean Management: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Kaizen, Kaikaku and Innovation Management -- Chapter 3: Kata – Behavioural Transformation towards Lean Management -- Chapter 4: Keiretsu Networks -- Chapter 5: Kyouiku – The Learning Enterprise -- Chapter 6: Policy Deployment and Hoshin...

Introduction -- Embedding the topic into the scientific environment based on a comprehensive literature review -- Methodical procedure according to a problem-centered approach -- Development of a supply chain finance model in consideration of cooperative game theory -- Demonstration and...