This volume edited by Thorsten Blecker, Wolfgang Kersten and Christian Lüthje provides a valuable insight into novel concepts and approaches in logistics process optimization and supply chain efficiency, pioneering approaches in modern supply chain design, concrete cases of performance driven supply chain optimazation, innovative technological solutions in 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.