Mit der unternehmensübergreifenden Harmonisierung ihrer Geschäftsprozesse versuchen immer mehr Unternehmen, den verschärften Wettbewerbsbedingungen wirkungsvoll zu begegnen. Die enge Zusammenarbeit in der Wertschöpfungskette ist jedoch sowohl für das einzelne Kettenglied als auch für die Supply Chain insgesamt mit zahlreichen Risiken verbunden. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen einen systematischen Überblick über die (potenziellen) in Supply Chains auftretenden Risiken und zeigt Strategien zum Umgang mit diesen Risiken auf. Bewährte Pflichtlektüre für angehende und professionelle Entscheider aus den Bereichen Einkauf, Produktion, Logistik und Supply Chain Management.

Mit der unternehmensübergreifenden Harmonisierung ihrer Geschäftsprozesse versuchen immer mehr Unternehmen, den verschärften Wettbewerbsbedingungen wirkungsvoll zu begegnen. Die enge Zusammenarbeit in der Wertschöpfungskette ist jedoch sowohl für das einzelne Kettenglied als auch für die Supply Chain insgesamt mit zahlreichen Risiken verbunden. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen einen systematischen Überblick über die (potenziellen) in Supply Chains auftretenden Risiken und zeigt Strategien zum Umgang mit diesen Risiken auf. Bewährte Pflichtlektüre für angehende und professionelle Entscheider aus den Bereichen Einkauf, Produktion, Logistik und Supply Chain Management.

Flexibilität ist die Grundvoraussetzung zur Bewältigung turbulenter Zeiten. Sie ist der strategische Erfolgsfaktor, der das Bestehen des Unternehmens langfristig sichert. Dass Flexibilität für das erfolgreiche Bestehen der Unternehmen gestaltet und gesteigert werden kann, zeigt dieses Buch. International renommierte Experten stellen in diesem Buch neuartige Strategien und Konzepte vor und geben Hinweise zur praktischen Umsetzung.

This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten and Thorsten Blecker, offers the most important perspectives on supply chain risk management. The contributions written by named experts provide actual information about workable approaches for supply chain risk management, analyses of supply chain risks, identification of key risk factors for logistics outsourcing, assessment of the uncertainty of delivery. With this book readers will gain central insights how to handle approaches for supply chain risk management within their business. They will learn how to manage risks effectively to build leaner supply chains with a maintainable risk exposure for all partners in industry and services.

This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten and Thorsten Blecker, offers the most important perspectives on supply chain risk management. The contributions written by named experts provide actual information about workable approaches for supply chain risk management, analyses of supply chain risks, identification of key risk factors for logistics outsourcing, assessment of the uncertainty of delivery. With this eBook readers will gain central insights how to handle approaches for supply chain risk management within their business. They will learn how to manage risks effectively to build leaner supply chains with a maintainable risk exposure for all partners in industry and services.

This book, edited by Thorsten Blecker and Wolfgang Kersten, is exemplifying the current progress in complexity management. Separate chapters are dedicated to clarify complexity management in transportation, networks and supply chains. It offers important insights of global and flexible network modelling to manage complexity, complexity in supply chains – developing human resource strategy, performance measurement of green supply chain management, complexity in transportation by means of containers and air-cargos. The volume, written by well-known experts of supply chain management from all over the world, shows applicable solutions, practical examples and use cases to illustrate complexity management and its application in logistics and supply chain management. It presents the central perspectives for a modern complexity management in supply chains.

In the future process and service innovations will gain further importance in practice and research. Even today, market winners need them to obtain advantage in competition. In this context logistics and supply chain management are key enablers. Innovations in these areas will allow supply chains to increase their efficiency significantly and help to create further innovations in different areas. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Cornelius Herstatt provides insights into new concepts and innovations in the areas of logistics management concepts, supply chain planning and design, supply chain management driven innovations, risk and sustainability management and regional innovations for logistics. The book for ambitious innovators in logistics! In addition, it offers valuable insights into the status of logistic supply chain management for lecturers and students.

This volume, edited by Thorsten Blecker and George Q. Huang, presents current research and applications of RFID in practice, e.g. RFID for customer relationship management, identity-based tracking and web services for small- and medium-sized enterprises, RFID based system for real-time fruit management. In addition, the book dwells on logistic standards and emerging issues such as privacy and security considerations of RFID systems.

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.