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.

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.