Logistics is a key enabler of supply chain collaboration, thus improving performance in this field allows supply chains to increase their efficiency significantly. This volume, edited by Thorsten Blecker, Wolfgang Kersten and Matthias Meyer provides a valuable insight into: new concepts for logistics and supply chain management, latest findings in the area of performance management, simulation approaches for high-performance supply chains and information on pioneering technologies for logistics such as Auto-ID. Know-how for you to optimize logistics networks and supply chains.

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.