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The supply chain management approach is prevalent in economical practice today. Important improvements have been realized during the last years. However, the attempt to form lean supply chains by reducing buffer stocks and the concentration on fewer suppliers lead to an increasing vulnerability of supply chains. Numerous managers and researchers have experienced that beside the successes of supply chain management, the exposure to risk is growing for many companies. Both the occurrence of new risks as well as reinforcement of traditional business risks causes this trend. Companies are depending increasingly on the risk situation and the risk management capabilities of other their partners as well as the supply chain as a whole. 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.

Today´s demand patterns constantly claim for greener products from more sustainable supply chains. Handling these customer needs puts a constant pressure on the players: Ecological and social issues arise additionally to challenges like technology management and efficiency enhancement. Concurrently each of these holds incredible opportunities to separate from competitors, yet increases chain complexity and risks. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Christian Ringle, provides valuable insights into: Sustainable Supply Chain Efforts, Handling Risks: Concepts towards robust SCM and Future Outlooks in Logistics

As the customer is demanding more sustainable and affordable products, the supply chains have to find innovative ways to fulfill this need. In this context, collaboration as well as optimization methods are becoming even more evident to enhance supply chain structure to an efficient and sustainable approach. While collaboration and optimization increase complexity and susceptibility, risk management needs to be applied concurrently. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Christian Ringle, provides valuable insights into: - Sustainability in Logistics - Sustainability and collaboration practices - Supply chain risk management - Optimization methods in supply chain management. This volume addresses timely and relevant topics. Both researchers and practitioners are addressed and can obtain background information from current distributions by international authors presenting a state of the art research overview.

The importance of supply chain management is increasing. As companies and networks of firms compete globally, the management of the flow of products and information has become a crucial factor that can decide success or failure of a company. In this context, an important task is the optimization of the inter-organizational collaboration and an effective approach to manage the risks in the supply chain. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker, and Christian M. Ringle, provides valuable insights into: - new approaches for supply chain risk management - supply chain complexity management - innovative supply chain and product design - summaries of international case studies. This volume addresses timely and relevant topics. Both researchers and practitioners are addressed and can obtain valuable background information from current contributions by international authors presenting a state of the art research overview.

As a central success factor of international supply frameworks, supply chain management has become a key concept in the strategic and operational decision-making of globally active companies. In this context, an important task of process optimization approaches is to enhance inter-organizational collaborations as well as efforts towards more sustainability and a better understanding of risks within the supply chain. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Carlos Jahn, provides a valuable insight into: - new concepts in supply chain risk management, - innovative approaches for supply chain sustainability, - considerations of supply chain design and performance, and - international case studies for logistics optimization. With this book, central insights concerning international supply chain management and current collaboration practices can be gained. Both researchers and practitioners are addressed and can obtain valuable background knowledge from current contributions by international authors representing different perspectives on central issues in modern business research.

Many of the challenges posed by megatrends like globalization, shorter product life cycles, advanced information technologies and sustainable development have been successfully approached by advanced supply chain management techniques. Consequently, supply chain research has to always be one step ahead of present requirements to successfully deal with the complex structures of business today and in the future. Research has to disclose new developments and opportunities. 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 This 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.

Globalization, shorter product life cycles, and new information technologies – competition takes no longer between companies, but between entire supply chains. Hence there is a need for a synchronized measurement and improvement of supply chain performance occuring, which is a complex construct overall. Supply chain performance management encompasses therefore all methodologies, metrics, processes, systems, and even software applicable to this task. This volume edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker, and Matthias Meyer provides information on how to measure and improve the performance of logistics and supply chains by the mean of different strategies, processes, and metrics of an interorganizational performance management.

Nowadays the supply chain management framework is improved continuously by new elements like quality or risk management. This affects the inter-organizational management system in a global perspective as well as the design of every single node in a supply chain. 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 readers will learn how to optimize the management of existing networks in different fields of logistics.

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. An important task is to find structures and approaches which enable all types of innovations in logistics and supply chains to better fulfill customer needs. 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 - regional innovations for logistics. This book is written for both, ambitious practitioners who have to tackle the challenges of an increasing risk and complexity exposure in Logistic and Supply Chains and academic researchers. In addition to this, it offers valuable insights into the status of logistic supply chain management for lecturers and students.

This volume contains research contributions by an international group of authors addressing innovative and technology-based approaches for supply chain management. They present business models and investment options for enhanced strategic decision making as well as recent approaches for supply chain analytics and risk management. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Christian Ringle, provides valuable insights into artificial intelligence and digital transformation in Supply Chain Management with regard to: - Innovation and Technology Management - Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 - Supply Chain Analytics and Blockchain - Risk and Security Management