This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for logistics and supply chain management.

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.

Flexibilität ist die Grundvoraussetzung zur Bewältigung turbulenter Zeiten. Sie ist der strategische Erfolgsfaktor, der das Bestehen des Unternehmens langfristig sichert. Dass Flexibilität für das erfolgreiche Bestehen der Unternehmen gestaltet und gesteigert werden kann, zeigt dieses Buch. International renommierte Experten stellen in diesem Buch neuartige Strategien und Konzepte vor und geben Hinweise zur praktischen Umsetzung.

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 Wolfgang Kersten and Thorsten Blecker, offers the most important perspectives on supply chain risk management. The contributions written by named experts provide actual information about workable approaches for supply chain risk management, analyses of supply chain risks, identification of key risk factors for logistics outsourcing, assessment of the uncertainty of delivery. With this book readers will gain central insights how to handle approaches for supply chain risk management within their business. They will learn how to manage risks effectively to build leaner supply chains with a maintainable risk exposure for all partners in industry and services.

This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten and Thorsten Blecker, offers the most important perspectives on supply chain risk management. The contributions written by named experts provide actual information about workable approaches for supply chain risk management, analyses of supply chain risks, identification of key risk factors for logistics outsourcing, assessment of the uncertainty of delivery. With this eBook readers will gain central insights how to handle approaches for supply chain risk management within their business. They will learn how to manage risks effectively to build leaner supply chains with a maintainable risk exposure for all partners in industry and services.

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.

This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Christian Lüthje, will provide insights into approaches for innovations in supply chain risk management, holistic considerations of co-operative and collaborative supply and logistics management, innovations for the design of competitive and sustainable supply chains, novel developments in the field of 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.