Today all companies either source globally, sell globally, or compete with some company that does. This handbook provides a comprehensive understanding and assessment of the field of global logistics and supply chain management

Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain Management -- 1.1...

Front Cover -- Praise for Risk Intelligent Supply Chains -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Prologue: A Tale of Fragility and Resilience -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 - Global Supply Chain Networks in the Age of Fragility -- Chapter 2 - Risk Intelligent Supply Chains...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Guest editorial -- Towards socially sustainable supply chains - themes and challenges -- Strategic CSR: a panacea for profit and altruism? -- Professionalism as social responsibility in procurement and administration -- Managing social responsibility in...

For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated-and then doing so effectively-can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak,...

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. However, this opportunity...

This e-book contains five papers selected from the combined Fourth Worldwide Symposium in Purchasing & Supply Chain Management, 15th Annual IPSERA conference and 17th NARTS conference. The papers, which are some of the strongest from the symposium, suggest international answers to the three key...

Front -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1 -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- PART 2 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- PART 3 -- CHAPTER 15 -- CHAPTER 16 --...

Chapter 8: Market fo r Remanufactured Products: Empirical FindingsPart III: Industry Characteristics and Case Studies; Chapter 9: Examples of Existing Profitable Practices in Product Take-Back and Recovery; Chapter 10: Reuse and Recycling in the Motion Picture Industry; Chapter 11: Reverse...