Techniques, Tools and Methodologies Applied to Global Supply Chain Ecosystems

This book presents the latest developments concerning techniques, tools, and methodologies in supply chain ecosystems. It gathers contributions from a variety of experts, who analyze a range of case studies and industrial sectors such as manufacturing, energy, agricultural, healthcare, humanitarian logistics, and urban goods distribution, to name but a few.

The book is chiefly intended to meet the needs of two sectors: firstly, the academic sector, so as to familiarize students, professors, and researchers with the tools that are now being used to optimize supply chains; and secondly, the industrial and managerial sector, so that supply chain management practitioners can benefit from methods and tools that are yielding valuable results in other contexts.

Introduces a wealth of new techniques, tools, and methodologies for improving supply chain management Demonstrates how managers are using these resources to improve their supply chains' performance and achieve a competitive edge on the globalized market Reports on case studies that help to understand the application in the industrial world, illustrating how managers are focusing on cost reduction, integrating their partners, employing information and communication technologies, and using algorithms to optimize resources in supply chains

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Impact of managers and human resources on the supply chain performance.- The role of employees' performance and external knowledge transfer on the supply chain flexibility.- Modern slavery in the global supply chains: the challenges of legislations and mandatory disclosures.