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.

In the future process and service innovations will gain further importance in practice and research. Even today, market winners need them to obtain advantage in competition. In this context logistics and supply chain management are key enablers. Innovations in these areas will allow supply chains to increase their efficiency significantly and help to create further innovations in different areas. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Cornelius Herstatt provides insights into new concepts and innovations in the areas of logistics management concepts, supply chain planning and design, supply chain management driven innovations, risk and sustainability management and regional innovations for logistics. The book for ambitious innovators in logistics! In addition, it offers valuable insights into the status of logistic supply chain management for lecturers and students.

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.

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.

This volume, edited by Tugrul Daim, Nathasit Gerdsri and Nuri Basoglu, focuses on three areas Technology Assessment, Technology Forecasting and Technology Diffusion. It shows an introduction to different types of assessment methods and applications from different sectors including energy, healthcare and communications; technology forecasting and foresight and a review of conventional and emerging methods; the diffusion of technologies by exploring adoption of products and services from different sectors. With this book you will gain central insights into Technology Assessment!

This volume, edited by Thorsten Blecker and George Q. Huang, presents current research and applications of RFID in practice, e.g. RFID for customer relationship management, identity-based tracking and web services for small- and medium-sized enterprises, RFID based system for real-time fruit management. In addition, the book dwells on logistic standards and emerging issues such as privacy and security considerations of RFID systems.

Nowadays the supply chain management framework is improved continuously by new elements like quality or risk management. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Heike Flämig provides a valuable insight into: latest findings in the area of global logistics, new concepts for product induced logistics strategies, quality and risk management for logistics and supply chains, the challenge of sustainability, performance and capacity management. With this volume you will learn how to optimize the management of existing networks in different fields of logistics.

In this book, Nizar Abdelkafi defines variety-induced complexity from the perspectives of the company, supply chain and customers. The author develops a sequence model and a key metrics system for the management of internal complexity, proposes a matrix-based tool that identifies the causes of complexity in mass customization supply chains and conducts an explorative study at a Germany-based company. Furthermore he identifies features, to use in online configuration systems to reduce the complexity that customers face during the product selection process.

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.

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.