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Supply Chain in Humanitarian Operations: Managing Disruption Through Intervention and Innovation (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Nor Aida Abdul Rahman Kamran Mahroof Juliater SimarmataThis book explores the pivotal role of humanitarian logistics and supply chain management in ensuring effective response and relief efforts during crises. It delves into the technology revolution in this field, covering emerging trends and providing in-depth knowledge on theories and applications. The book emphasizes how technology can enhance the efficiency of humanitarian logistics and supply chain operations, integrating and optimizing technology for effective aid delivery during emergencies or crises. This book highlights the vital role that humanitarian logistics and supply chain management play during crises, emphasizing recent technological advancements. It explores the key components, challenges, and innovations that enhance the effectiveness of these systems in providing timely and targeted assistance. The book also connects humanitarian logistics to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), demonstrating how these efforts contribute to poverty alleviation, health, and disaster resilience. This book offers a blend of comprehensive research and high-quality outputs from reputed authors and editors. It targets doctoral, postgraduate, graduate, and final-year undergraduate students in aviation, logistics, transport, travel, and tourism studies, as well as managers and decision-makers worldwide.
Supply Chain in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Strategic Influences and Supply Chain Responses
by Rob WhewellThe pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is hugely complex because it involves so many markets, products, processes and intermediaries. It is also heavily regulated, global, and used by everyone at some stage in their life. No wonder the supply chain for delivery of healthcare services is often fragmented and understood only in discrete sections. Changes in one area impact upon the others, and environmental factors such as pricing, regulatory change or actions by competitors impact the whole supply chain in ways that are not easily understood or managed. Accelerating technology, the commoditization of healthcare, increasing demands from ageing populations all influence the approach that suppliers of pharmaceutical products and services worldwide need to take if they are to design and manage an effective supply chain that will be capable of: exploiting their intellectual property in a sustainable way; providing safe and continuous provision of drugs or devices; and sustaining with resilience, yet still be flexible and cost efficient. Supply Chain in the Pharmaceutical Industry offers the basis for organizations to develop their own blueprint for managing the opportunities and threats to the pharmaceutical supply chain. Using examples from companies and markets across the world Rob Whewell offers a very vivid picture of the developing trends for pharmaceutical companies; the customers and markets they serve and points to some of the elements that underpin sustainable pharmaceutical strategies. The current global banking and financial crisis illustrates the important role played by regulation. The healthcare industry is similar in scope, and complexity, yet the implications of error are worse - life threatening. This review of key industry parameters will provide senior executives in the industry and policy makers in healthcare with a broad perspective of the issues and illustrates an understanding of the task at hand.
Supply Chain: Fundamentals and Best Practices to Compete by Leveraging the Network
by Antonio RizziThe book examines the supply chain from different perspectives: the physical structure which it is composed of (actors, roles, infrastructures and processes), the organizational structure of the people involved (business functions and related interactions and integrations), and the manifold flows that characterize it (product flows, information flows, service flows and monetary flows). For each of these dimensions, the text thoroughly illustrates how to design and manage it, aligning supply chain performance and competitive strategies through an integrated approach, which is key to generate competitive advantage. The book covers the different topics by combining a quantitative approach typical of engineering disciplines and adopted particularly in the operational parts, with a qualitative approach which fits in the more strategic parts. This combination makes the volume suitable for both under- and post-graduate students in industrial engineering and management, as well as undergraduates or masters students confronting supply chain management from different cultural backgrounds. Industry operators and practitioners can also find useful insights, since it thoroughly describes industry best practices, especially in the food and consumer goods, fashion and apparel, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, stemming from author’s real life experiences in these fields.
Supply Chains in Action: A Case Study Collection in Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement and Operations Management
by Richard WildingVolume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses. Comprehensive in scope and scrupulous in detail, this collection includes actual events experienced by businesses of every size, from SMB's to some of the most successful corporations in manufacturing, transportation, maritime and other industries. Readers will discover proven tactics and innovative solutions for handling uncertainties, solving problems and circumventing risk, plus a wealth of information to guide strategy and decision making. Readers involved in logistics and supply chain management will find the Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection full of: immediate application of strategies and tactics to situations and challenges; valuable tools for testing management proficiency in crisis mitigation and resolution; independent learning modules and professional training programmes; expanded question-and-answer sections designed to measure knowledge transfer and lessons learned; engaging, topical situations highly relevant to the fields of logistics, supply chain management and operations. Students and prospective managers will learn crucial skills to meet current challenges, qualify for professional advancement and achieve success.
Supply Chains in Reverse Logistics: The Process Approach for Sustainability and Environmental Protection
by Andrzej Szymonik Robert StanisławskiCurrently, it is obvious that new types of production (Industry 4.0) are accompanying new ways of distribution, which advance logistics, physical distribution science, and even supply chain management. The changing environment for carrying out logistics activities is also important for the development of the supply chain. Care for ecology, the recent pandemic, and the situation in Ukraine are other reasons to adapt logistics to the needs of an individual customer/recipient. It would be impossible without developing an appropriate strategy and applying appropriate tools for managing supply chains in the national and international dimensions. This book specifically addresses these issues. When analyzing the needs and structure of modern supply chains, in the context of their safety and risk reduction, it is impossible to ignore the problem of digitization, which allows for logistic analysis of the company, determining optimal routes, designing logistic systems, optimizing storage processes and costs, and predicting possible threats (crisis situations) and their effects (losses). IT support, automatic data exchange, e-logistics, telematics, traceability, and chatbots between various departments of the company along the upper and lower parts of the supply chain improve the flow of material and accompanying information through automation, robotization, proactivity, and document digitization. These new trends make it possible to define logistics as modern logistics using new achievements of science and technology. Modern logistics must also consider ecological aspects in line with assumptions about protecting the environment and improving our climate. Efficiently organized reverse logistics is not without significance for ecology. It is supported by renewable energy, electric vehicles, proper education in the field of a closed economy, cleaner production, waste minimization, the use of passive infrastructure, and proper waste management that allows us to positively influence environmental protection and human health. To meet the needs of creating modern supply chains, the authors developed this powerful book in which they analyze and present current and future solutions that influence the development of these issues in modern reverse logistics.
Supply Chains, Markets and Power: Managing Buyer and Supplier Power Regimes
by Andrew Cox Paul Ireland Chris Lonsdale Joe Sanderson Glyn WatsonSupply Chains, Markets and Power takes resource-based thinking forward by stressing the need for a dynamic and entrepreneurial conception of resource acquisition and management. This book will be essential reading for all those with a professional or academic interest in supply chain management.
Supply Chains: 5th Olympus International Conference, ICSC 2024, Katerini, Greece, May 24–26, 2024, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2110)
by Dimitrios Aidonis Charisios Achillas Ioannis Kostavelis Dimitrios FolinasThis two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Olympus International Conference, ICSC 2024, held in Katerini, Greece, during May 24–26, 2024. The 51 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 92 submissions. The primary objective of 5th Olympus ICSC is to offer an international platform for the presentation and publication of the latest scientific research findings in the field of Supply Chain Management. This conference provides valuable opportunities for delegates to exchange innovative ideas, establish research and business connections, and foster global partnerships for potential collaborations. We sincerely anticipate that this conference will significantly contribute to the advancement of knowledge in relevant scientific and academic domains.
Supply Chains: 5th Olympus International Conference, ICSC 2024, Katerini, Greece, May 24–26, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2111)
by Dimitrios Aidonis Charisios Achillas Ioannis Kostavelis Dimitrios FolinasThis two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Olympus International Conference, ICSC 2024, held in Katerini, Greece, during May 24–26, 2024. The 51 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 92 submissions. The primary objective of 5th Olympus ICSC is to offer an international platform for the presentation and publication of the latest scientific research findings in the field of Supply Chain Management. This conference provides valuable opportunities for delegates to exchange innovative ideas, establish research and business connections, and foster global partnerships for potential collaborations. We sincerely anticipate that this conference will significantly contribute to the advancement of knowledge in relevant scientific and academic domains.
Supply Management
by David N. Burt Donald W. Dobler Sheila Petcavage Richard Pinkerton Sheila D. Petcavage Richard L. PinkertonSupply Management is a major revision of the classic text in the field of procurement. The Eighth Edition builds on the strengths of prior editions, while including state of the art coverage and enhancements to help prepare students for the globalized world of business they will enter.
Supply Management
by Sathit ParniangtongThis book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers. It begins by outlining the mental shift necessary to build robust relationships with suppliers. Next, the book details strategic sourcing methodology: a step-by-step approach for creating productive relationships with key suppliers, providing illustrations and examples from the author s experience throughout. The third and final part of the book provides details of a comprehensive process developed to arm the negotiation team with all facts necessary to reach desired outcomes. This detailed step-by-step process consists of negotiation strategy and case building, supplier response and positioning, negotiation planning, discussions, and resolution, and supplier evaluation. In addition, the book highlights best practices in strategic sourcing representing tactics for buyers to leverage their buying power to ensure they attain full value. These best practices are drawn from several strategic sourcing projects carried out for leading companies in the USA over several years. "
Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial Handbook for Building Sourcing Strategies (Resource Management)
by Robert HandfieldSupply Market Intelligence: A Managerial Handbook for Building Sourcing Strategies begins by defining supply market intelligence and discussing opportunities, the establishment of a project team, and conducting an internal business intelligence assessment. The book then examines the development of business and market intelligence, supplier evaluations, and sourcing strategies. It also explores how to execute a sourcing strategy, manage a strategic supplier relationship, and redesign an organization for effective supply-chain intelligence and strategic sourcing. This volume offers a benchmarking framework covering all facets of supply-chain management, and includes best practices and case studies of world-class companies.
Supply Network 5.0: How to Improve Human Automation in the Supply Chain
by Bernardo NicolettiThis book examines how Industry 5.0 can be defined and implemented for Supply Chain Management and what essential characteristics it has. In outlining Supply Network 5.0, it examines how humans and machines, especially robotic process automation systems and artificial intelligence tools, will work together in the New Normal. To provide a comprehensive overview, it proposes a new conceptualization of Supply Network 5.0’s business model based on the Business Model Canvas and SCOR framework and provides a dedicated analysis of the proposed solutions and real-world implications of its implementation. Including case studies from several different sectors and including significant analysis on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book will provide a cutting-edge perspective for academics and students of supply chain management, digital business and innovation.
Supply Network Dynamics and Control (Springer Series in Supply Chain Management #20)
by Dmitry Ivanov Alexandre Dolgui Boris SokolovThis book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in network dynamics and control with applications to supply chains, manufacturing and logistics systems. It systemizes these developments in the form of new taxonomies and methodological principles to shape the research domain of supply network dynamics control. Uniquely, the book links the fundamentals of control and system theories and artificial intelligence with supply chain and operations management. It addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners alike, revealing the challenges and opportunities of supply chain and operations management by means of dynamic system analysis.
Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution
by Brian CzechPoliticians, economists, and Wall Street would have us believe that limitless economic expansion is the Holy Grail, and that there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment. Supply Shock debunks these widely accepted myths and demonstrates that we are in fact navigating the end of the era of economic growth, and that the only sustainable alternative is the development of a steady state economy.Starting with a refreshingly accessible, comprehensive critique of economic growth, the author engages readers in an enormous topic that affects everyone in every country. Publisher's Weekly favorably compared Czech to Carl Sagan for popularizing their difficult subjects; Supply Shock shows why.Czech presents a compelling alternative to growth based on keen scientific, economic, and political insights including:The "trophic theory of money"The overlooked source of technological progress that prevents us from reconciling growth and environmental protectionBold yet practical policies for establishing a steady state economy.Supply Shock leaves no doubt that the biggest idea of the 20th century – economic growth – has become the biggest problem of the 21st. Required reading for anyone concerned about the world our children and grandchildren will inherit, this landmark work lays a solid foundation for a new economic model, perhaps in time for preventing global catastrophes; certainly in time for lessening the damages.
Supply and Competition in Minor Metals (Routledge Revivals)
by David B. BrooksAn interest in the minor metals – termed "minor" as their annual production is relatively small – had been developing for many years. This study, first published in 1965, examines patterns of supply that can be identified as underlying the production of minor metals, and then uses these patterns to investigate the nature and degree of competition in the production of minor metals. This book will be of interest to students of environmental studies.
Supply in a Market Economy (Studies in Economics and Political Science)
by Richard JonesOriginally published in 1976, Supply in a Market Economy was a new kind of introductory micro-economics text which both assesses the usefulness of traditional theory in tackling social and economic problems and compares and contrasts the alternative approaches to the practical problems inherent in the allocation of scarce resources. Richard Jones has succeeded in bringing together the most useful features of a standard microeconomics theory book with empirical and applied material more usually dealt with separately in second year surveys of industrial organisation. The book gives full coverage to the standard theories of the firm, of production, of cost and scale, and of location, to recent critiques of these theories and to alternative approaches now being proposed. Integrated into this theoretical background is a clear analysis of the relationship of these theories to market structures and the economics of industry, and a ‘real-world’ examination of markets in action – with individual sections on the control of rents, on the water supply industry, on the effect of taxation on commodities, and on the economics of crime and its prevention. Supply in a Market Economy would prove to be an invaluable new course-book for first and second year students of microeconomics at the time and particularly for those non-specialists who were impatient to see the relevance and applications of traditional theory to real problems. Now it can be read in its historical context.
Supply-Side Sustainability (Complexity in Ecological Systems)
by Timothy Allen Joseph Tainter Thomas HoekstraWhile environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future.Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to this dilemma by integrating ecological and social science approaches in an interdisciplinary treatment of sustainability. Written by two ecologists and an anthropologist, this book discusses organisms, landscapes, populations, communities, biomes, the biosphere, ecosystems and energy flows, as well as patterns of sustainability and collapse in human societies, from hunter-gatherer groups to empires to today's industrial world. These diverse topics are integrated within a new framework that translates the authors' advances in hierarchy and complexity theory into a form useful to professionals in science, government, and business.The result is a much-needed blueprint for a cost-effective management regime, one that makes problem-solving efforts themselves sustainable over time. The authors demonstrate that long-term, cost-effective resource management can be achieved by managing the contexts of productive systems, rather than by managing the commodities that natural systems produce.
Support Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)
by Yingjie Tian Chunhua Zhang Naiyang DengSupport Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions presents an accessible treatment of the two main components of support vector machines (SVMs)-classification problems and regression problems. The book emphasizes the close connection between optimization theory and SVMs since optimization is one of the pillars on which
Support-Bargaining, Economics and Society: A Social Species (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Patrick SpreadSupport-Bargaining, Economics and Society links support-bargaining to Darwin's theory of natural selection and traces the implications of support-bargaining and money-bargaining across society. It provides a wholly different account of the functioning of human societies from anything that has gone before. Social scientists, ever since there have been such people, have missed the crucial human characteristic – the propensity to seek support – that has given rise to group formation and the evolution of human society.
Supporting Family and Community Investments in Young Children Globally: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences
by Engineering Medicine National Academies of SciencesTo examine the science, policy, and practice surrounding supporting family and community investments in young children globally and children in acute disruptions, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in partnership with the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from July 27-29, 2015. The workshop examined topics related to supporting family and community investments in young children globally. Examples of types of investments included financial and human capital. Participants also discussed how systems can better support children, families, and communities through acute disruptions such as the Ebola outbreak. Over the course of the 3-day workshop, researchers, policy makers, program practitioners, funders, young influencers, and other experts from 19 countries discussed how best to support family and community investments across areas of health, education, nutrition, social protection, and other service domains. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Supporting HEROes with Technology Innovation: How IT Professionals and Employees Can Work Together to Create Customer-Focused Technology Solutions
by Josh Bernoff Ted SchadlerSocial technologies like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr have tremendous power to serve your customers, and these technologies are literally at your employees' fingertips. This chapter explains how IT professionals and employee HEROes-Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives-must share the responsibility of technological leadership if your company is to become capable of employee-driven, customer-focused innovation. IT's new role is not to run all your HERO-driven technology projects. Instead, your IT department must learn to support HERO initiatives by finding and assembling the best technologies, exposing HEROes to them, and managing collaboration activities. Using rich examples from Aflac and Best Buy, authors Josh Bernoff-coauthor of "Groundswell"-and Ted Schadler show you a whole new way to look at technology in the corporate world-a world in which your IT department no longer operates isolated systems, but instead supports ubiquitous business and social technologies. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 13 of Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business
Supporting Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa - Volume I: Sustainability in Infrastructure Development
by Elena G. Popkova Bruno S. Sergi Julia V. Ragulina Lubinda HaabazokaThis edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing (e.g. BRICS) countries, but as a separate economy and as a self-sufficient region which follows its own priorities, and implements its own unique opportunities and vectors of growth and development. This first volume addresses the contemporary and topical issues of inclusive growth, digital modernisation, and sustainable development, recommending policy outcomes for the future.
Supporting Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa - Volume II: Transforming Infrastructure Development
by Elena G. Popkova Bruno S. Sergi Julia V. Ragulina Lubinda HaabazokaThis edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing (e.g. BRICS) countries, but as a separate economy and as a self-sufficient region which follows its own priorities, and implements its own unique opportunities and vectors of growth and development. This volume addresses the contemporary and topical issues of inclusive growth, digital modernisation, and sustainable development, recommending policy outcomes for the future.
Supporting Learning Across Working Life
by Stephen Billett Darryl Dymock Sarojni ChoyThis volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working lifecan be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches thatfit well within working lives and workplaces, and support work and learning asa co-occurrence. These are the key focuses for individual and collectivecontributions to this edited volume, which provide discussions about whatconstitutes learning across working lives and how this differs from lifelonglearning and lifelong education. Accounts of learning across the working livesof social workers, doctors working in hospitals and in general practice,teaching, aviation, nursing, mining, aged care and more. These accounts advancea range of ways in which workers' learning across working lives is beingsupported and how this support is also linked to other changes, such as to theoccupational practice in which they engage.
Supporting Policing Students: A Handbook for Lecturers, Tutors, Coaches and Mentors
by James DicketyThis is an invaluable guide for those involved in supporting policing students, including lecturers, tutors, trainers, mentors and coaches. It integrates quality research and practice to help anyone in these roles provide optimal support and guidance to their policing students. Shaping the next generation of policing officers and staff comes with a unique set of challenges, so chapters cover a myriad of useful subjects related to coaching models and theories and how to apply these in a policing context. Additionally, you will find insightful teaching tips, including effective feedback strategies and guidance on addressing challenging topics like domestic abuse and courtroom appearances. Accessibly written, this book can be explored from start to finish or used as a reference guide, and includes reflective exercises and real-life policing examples to help you apply theory to practice, creating an enriching learning experience for both you and your students.