Supply Chain Management

This title was first published in 2001. Purchasing scams are largely overlooked but can cost companies thousands of pounds - this practical book provides details of common scams and what to do about them...

This book addresses several important issues faced by strategic, tactical, and operation planners of reverse supply chains, using efficient models in a variety of decision-making situations providing easy-to-use mathematical and/or simulation modeling based solution methodologies for a majority of t..

Providing a deeper understanding of this field, this book examines past, present, and future directions for RFID technology. The book presents an integrated logistics model along with various applications of RFID in animal tracking, toll roads, people tracking, and other areas. It addresses both act..

Based on the author's experience testing and implementing RFID technology in both industrial and military cases, this text explains how to evaluate the need for this technology. The author focuses on what problems RFID is meant to solve, if such problems exist in an organization, and what metrics to..

Most large companies worldwide today have some kind of shared services concept in place. Over half of the medium and large companies are currently engaged in some kind of shared service project activity. The investment in shared services is always calculated in millions. In other words, the costs of..

Most large companies worldwide today have some kind of shared services concept in place. Over half of the medium and large companies are currently engaged in some kind of shared service project activity. The investment in shared services is always calculated in millions. In other words, the costs of..

Strategic Supply Chain Alignment brings together for the first time the world’s leading logistics professionals, management consultants and academics to offer their insights and experiences on the latest supply chain management techniques. This collection of previously unpublished material offers th..

Strategic Supply Chain Alignment brings together for the first time the world’s leading logistics professionals, management consultants and academics to offer their insights and experiences on the latest supply chain management techniques. This collection of previously unpublished material offers th..

Successful Supply Chain Vendor Compliance explains the technical, process and cultural elements that go into a successful compliance program. A well-run program should help vendors self-implement and control costs, not force vendors to rely on constant communication and increase costs for all involv..

Covering the practical issues of a highly integrated network woven together by corporate relationships and enabled by information technology, this book addresses the many segments key to a smooth and profitable supply chain including sourcing, warehousing, and transportation. Emphasizing flexibility..

Designed by practitioners for practitioners, this book provides a wide-spectrum resource on many different aspects involved in the supply chain management. The book is an in-depth discussion on both general techniques and specific approaches to a broad range of important, inspiring, and unsolved que..

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a wide field in which several specialties are included. In general, operations and production management players use SCM to organize the problems and analyze the solution approaches. Due to these points, a reference which can encompass a range of problems and their m..