From a supply chain management point of view, the flow of goods in a supply chain can be viewed as a network of goods-exchanging actors (Carter, Ellram, and Tate, 2007; Gomm, and Trumpfheller, 2004). While supply chain management activities include requirements-planning and the ordering of goods in...

Disruptive innovations are currently changing the landscape of many industries and their business models. Because of increasingly digitalized processes and an exponential growth of sensible data, supply chains are also impacted by the fourth industrial revolution. The strategic management...

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contributors -- Authors' Biographies -- Emerging issues in urban freight transportation systems-introduction and overview of the book -- Part A. Land-use and urban production -- Chapter 1. Logistics locations...