Metadata and Copy  Title: Cross-chain collaboration in logisticsSubtitle: looking back and ahead Author Name and Affiliation Details: Frans CruijssenTilbur UniversityWarandelaan 25037 AB Tilburg, The Netherlandsfrans.cruijssen@tilburguniversity.edu About the Author: Frans Cruijssen is a Freelance consultant, and Senior Researcher at the Zero Hunger Lab of Tilburg University, specializing in supply chain optimization and collaboration and on applications of Operations Research to achieve the United Nations sustainable developments goals. His research interests include horizontal collaboration, supply chain optimization, operations research, transportat and logistics, and game theory. Information Text:This book examines cross-chain control centers (4C), an ambitious concept in supply chain management and logistics that is intended to foster collaboration between different supply chains to increase efficiency. It provides an overview of the main results, insights, and other developments in the academic field of horizontal collaboration. Furthermore, it gives recommendations to governments, commercial companies, and academia on how to proceed with horizontal logistics collaboration in the years to come. To link the research with practice, the books takes the Dutch 4C project on cross-chain collaboration centers and identifies a typology of existing patterns for horizontal collaboration in supply chains. Finally, the book zooms in on the Netherlands as a case-study of intense public-private partnerships to develop 4C as a mature logistics value proposition. The book provides an overview of the accomplishments in government supported Dutch 4C projects and offers a critical reflection of why some more ambitious and structural solutions have not found solid ground yet. The book is of value to researchers and professionals in the supply chain domain.weiterlesen