Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies

New challenges in supply chain design and management emerged after the rapid development of information and network technologies and market requirements. Four of these new technologies are: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology; mobile transaction technology; information handling and storage technology; and multi-agent technology. They can enable companies to change their thinking about supply chain management to cope with these changes. New methodologies include: sustainable supply chain management, advanced supply chain planning, available-to-promise (ATP) systems and lean supply chain design and management. This edited book describes new trends in supply chain design and management with an emphasis on technologies and methodologies and contains guidelines detailing the real-world applications of these technologies and methodologies. This book is of interest to researchers and practitioners and can also be used as a reference handbook by lecturers and postgraduate students in this field.

About the Author Dr Hosang Jung is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech. He has been involved in several projects on supply chain management sponsored by the Korean Government and the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) program. Prof. F. Frank Chen is the John L. Lawrence Endowed Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech. He was the founding Director (2001-2004) and is currently the Associate Director leading the area of Flexible Automation and Lean Manufacturing Technologies in the Center for High Performance Manufacturing at Virginia Tech. Dr Chen is currently serving on the Technology Advisory Panel of the U.S. National Next Generation Manufacturing Technology Initiative, with primary responsibilities in helping prioritize U.S. federal research funding in the areas of Enterprise Integration and Model-Based Enterprise. Dr Chen was one of the nine NSF nominated engineering professors who received the 1996 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from President Clinton at the White House. Prof. Bongju Jeong has led more than ten projects sponsored by the Korean Government and leading companies (such as Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS, Corning, and Samsung Display Devices) as a principal investigator from Yonsei University, one of Korea’s most prestigious universities. He is an executive member of the Korean Supply Chain Management Society.