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.

Logistics is a key enabler of supply chain collaboration. Innovations in this field, such as RFID technology, allow supply chains to increase their efficiency significantly and help to create further innovations in different areas. In this context, an important task is to find structures and approaches which enable all types of innovations in logistics and supply chains for a better fulfillment of customer needs. Another challenge is to handle the growing organizational complexity and the associated supply chain risks. This volume, edited by Thorsten Blecker, Wolfgang Kersten and Cornelius Herstatt provides valuable insights into planning and optimization of logistic processes, new concepts for transportation and supply chain event management, latest findings in the area of complexity management, insights into innovative IT systems in logistics and pioneering technologies for logistics like Auto-ID. The book for ambitious innovations in logistics with IT!