Globalization, shorter product life cycles, and new information technologies - competition takes no longer between companies, but between entire supply chains. This volume edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker, and Matthias Meyer provides a valuable insight into: approaches for a supply chain performance management, holistic considerations of supply and inventory management, concrete cases of performance driven supply chain optimization, novel developments in the field of logistics and supply chain management. Know-how to measure and improve the performance of logistics and supply chains.

This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Christian Lüthje, will provide insights into approaches for innovations in supply chain risk management, holistic considerations of co-operative and collaborative supply and logistics management, innovations for the design of competitive and sustainable supply chains, novel developments in the field of logistics and supply chain management. The volume appeals to practitioners and researchers alike, who are interested in current contributions by international authors, providing theoretical, empirical and case-study oriented background and information on their research work.

Nowadays the supply chain management framework is improved continuously by new elements like quality or risk management. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Heike Flämig provides a valuable insight into: latest findings in the area of global logistics, new concepts for product induced logistics strategies, quality and risk management for logistics and supply chains, the challenge of sustainability, performance and capacity management. With this volume you will learn how to optimize the management of existing networks in different fields of logistics.