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 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.

Today, there is a huge variety of logistics networks – ranging from very simple locally oriented chains to internationally operating complex systems. This volume, edited by Thorsten Blecker, Wolfgang Kersten and Carsten Gertz provides a valuable insight into: new concepts for transportation and supply chain management, latest findings in the area of distribution management, pioneering technologies for logistics such as Auto-ID and more. With this book you will learn how to manage existing nodes in different fields of logistics.