"Supply Chain Management: New Perspectives" ed. by Sanda Renko

This book gives an up-to-date view of supply chain, emphasizing current trends and developments in the area of supply chain management.

Over the past few decades the rapid spread of information and knowledge, the increasing expectations of customers and stakeholders, intensified competition, and searching for superior performance and low costs at the same time have made supply chain a critical management area.
Since supply chain is the network of organizations that are involved in moving materials, documents and information through on their journey from initial suppliers to final customers, it encompasses a number of key flows: physical flow of materials, flows of information, and tangible and intangible resources which enable supply chain members to operate effectively.

Contents
Preface
Part 1 Shifts in Managing Supply Chain
1 Supply Chain Management from a Systems Science Perspective
2 Supply Chain Management in Industrial Production: A Retrospective View
3 Supply Chain Configuration Revisited - Challenges and Strategic Roles for Western Manufacturers
4 Prediction Markets - A New Tool for Managing Supply Chains
5 Procurement Strategies in Domination in Supply Chains
Part 2 The Role of Cooperative Relationships
6 Collaboration and Exceptions Management in the Supply Chain
7 Strategic Approaches to Domination in Supply Chains
8 Vertical Collaboration in the Supply Chain
9 Collaboration in the Design-Manufacturing Chain: A Key to Improve Product Quality
10 Integrated Logistics in the Supply of Products Originating from Family Farming Organizations
11 Optimal Supply Chain Formation Using Manufacturers' Negotiation in the Environment that the Sub-Contracts are Allowable
Part 3 Optimizing Distribution Operations
12 Information Gathering and Classification for Collaborative Logistics Decision Making
13 A Supporting Decision Tool for the Integrated Planning of a Logistic Network
14 Development of a Cost Model for Intermodal Transport in Spain
15 Location Problems for Supply Chain
16 Traffic Congestion Effects on Supply Chains: Accounting for Behavioral Elements in Planning and Economic Impact Models
Part 4 Sustainability Issues Through the Supply Chain
17 Importance of Reverse Logistics for Retail Acts
18 Addressing Sustainability Issues Through Enhanced Supply-Chain Management
19 Supply Management Governance Role in Supply Chain Risk Management and Sustainability
20 Reverse Supply Chain Management - Modeling Through System Dynamics
21 Improving the Supply Chain of Non-Timber Forest Products in Ghana
Part 5 Competing Through Information and Technologies
22 Web Technologies and Supply Chains
23 Agile Information Systems for Mastering Supply Chain Uncertainty
24 Composite Supply Chain Applications
25 RFID and Supply Chain Management for Manufacturing Digital Enterprise
26 Scientific Data Sharing Virtual Organization Patterns Based on Supply Chain
27 Standards Framework for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Supply Chain
28 Intelligent Value Chain Networks: Business Intelligence and Other ICT Tools and Technologies in Supply/Demand Chains
Part 6 A Quantitative Approach
29 Supply Chain System Engineering: Framework Transforming Value Chain in Business Domain into Manageable Virtual Enterprise and Participatory Production
30 The Research on Stability of Supply Chain under Variable Delay Based on System Dynamics
31 Simulation Study on Dynamic Characteristics of VMI Supply Chain Inventory System Based on Multi-Agent System
32 Improving E-Procurement in Supply Chain Through Web Technologies: The HYDRAApproach
33 Districting and Customer Clustering Within Supply Chain Planning: A Review of Modeling and Solution Approaches