Distribution and logistics management Books

Book SynopsisSustainability is an increasingly urgent and important factor in logistics and supply chain management, impacting the whole supply chain lifecycle from product design and development, to supplier management, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution. The third volume of the Supply Chain Case Study Collection, the Sustainable and Green Supply Chains and Logistics Case Study Collection contains real-life scenarios from leading companies who are pursuing a sustainability agenda. Cases cover sustainability and 'green' practices in a range of different industries, from food through to manufacturing and construction, and in a variety of organization sizes. They are written by leading international academics and feature cutting-edge research from countries including India, Vietnam, Brazil, China and the UK. By exploring examples of waste reduction, supplier management, the circular economy and cross-industry collaboration, the Case Study Collection focuses on how organizations are currently trying to meet sustainability goals and achieve success in greening supply chains.Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Connecting supply and demand markets in a circular economy – The case of Saica [Desirée Knoppen, EADE Business School]; Chapter - 02: ‘You want it where?’ How a holistic and end-to-end sustainable logistics strategy can inform manufacturing plant location decisions [Erica Ballantyne and Graeme Heron, Sheffield University Management School]; Chapter - 03: The development of a triple bottom line sustainability index for a vertically integrated beef production company [Kim Bryceson, Mohd Mohsin, Geoff Slaughter, The University of Queensland]; Chapter - 04: Green practices in construction supply chains? How a construction company manages and coordinates its green SCM practices [Yiqing Zhao, Ying Xie, Linyi University]; Chapter - 05: Mechanized zones in food regional distribution centres – A sustainability case study [Tony Cragg, Tom McNamara, Ecole Supérieure de Logistique Industrielle]; Chapter - 06: Elevating business processes in sustainable supply chain management – The case of a chocolate supply chain network [Kate McLoughlin, David Lascelles, Sai S Nudurupati, Manchester Metropolitan University]; Chapter - 07: Exploring the inefficiency of medicine delivery processes in the pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) waste – The case of the UK and Greece [Marina Paplexi, Manchester Metropolitan University]; Chapter - 08: Packaging design and sustainability – The case of the paper packaging supply chain [Nicoleta S Tipi, Elias D Georgakoudis, The Open University Business School]; Chapter - 09: Factors affecting sustainability adoption in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) in Vietnam [Huy Q Phan, Mohammed Saad, Vikas Kumar, Bristol Business School]; Chapter - 10: The circular economy in manufacturing and service solutions – An air compressor company’s ‘air as a service’ [Mira Valkjärvi, Weimu You, Turku School of Economics]; Chapter - 11: Sustainable supplier management at Coca-Cola India – Creating a green ecosystem [Tom McNamara, Irena Descubes, Rennes School of Business]; Chapter - 12: Small and sustainable – The challenges of a small business in the Global South competing in domestic and international markets [Daiane Mülling Neutzling, Frediano da Silva Jales, Breno Mota Fernandes, University of Fortaleza]; Chapter - 13: The circular supply chain – Study of a cross-industry collaboration [Anne Ratsimandresy, Joe Miemczyk, ESCP Business School]; Chapter - 14: The cargo-partner iLogistics Center – A warehouse made completely out of wood [Milan Lani, Alan Zalas, cargo-partner]; Chapter - 15: ‘What is the impact of your company on the world?’ Developing changes towards supply chain sustainability [Ana P Ferreira Alves, Minelle E Silva, Excelia Business School]

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Book SynopsisIn a decentralized supply chain, most of the supply chain agents may not share information due to confidentiality policies, quality of information, or different system incompatibilities. Every actor holds its own set of information and attempts to maximize its objective (minimizing costs/minimizing inventory holdings) based on the available settings. Therefore, the agents control their own activities with the objective of improving their own competitiveness, which leads them to make decisions that maximize their local performance by ignoring the other agents or even the final consumer. These decisions are myopic because they do not consider the performance of all the partners to satisfy the consumer. Demand Forecasting and Order Planning in Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics is a collection of innovative research that focuses on demand anticipation, forecasting, and order planning as well as humanitarian logistics to propose original solutions for existing problems. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, information sharing, and operations management, this book is ideally designed for supply chain managers, logistics personnel, business executives, management experts, operation industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and students who want to improve their understanding of supply chain coordination in order to be competitive in the new era of globalization.

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Book SynopsisMaking Money in Forwarding provides a road map for how to be a successful forwarder, and make a great career in forwarding and logistics. It covers all aspects of what a freight planner must know, and do, in order to be successful. Readers will learn how to avoid common industry pitfalls and how to focus on profit, cost control, negotiation skills and building customer rapport. The book also shows just how profitable a company in this somewhat unglamorous industry can be, if it is led the right way, thus creating potential for enormous amounts of wealth for investors and employees alike. Written by two industry insiders; having a unique mix of hands-on daily practical experience, and the perspective from the Chief Executive Office, they share all of their insights in a way that concepts and actions can easily be applied and taken advantage of.

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Book SynopsisContributing to research, knowledge, and discourse on humanitarian logistics and supply chains in Africa, Supply Networks in Developing Countries introduces a unique perspective on the developing world, and how their supply networks can be enhanced and optimized. The authors highlight the 4th Industrial Revolution, information technology, reverse logistics, supply chain modelling and block-chains, and how these can be the key to strengthening humanitarian logistics in developing countries. It discusses humanitarian supply chain management issues in relation to the increasing numbers of disasters and the complexity and magnitude of global emergency relief operations. By exploring the roles and responsibilities of major stakeholders including donors, relief agencies, NGOs, governments, academia and cooperate business, this book provides the skills and knowledge needed to manage supply chains in both unpredictable and dire environments.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Humanitarian Logistics, Identifying and Reacting to Disasters Chapter 2. Frameworks Supporting Humanitarian Logistics Chapter 3. Disasters in Selected Emerging Economies Chapter 4. Supply Chain Channels and Network Design Chapter 5. Supply Chain Systems and Disaster Management Chapter 6. Modelling Humanitarian Supply Chains Chapter 7. Strategies and Opportunities for Reverse Logistics Chapter 8. Information Technology in Humanitarian Logistics Chapter 9. Humanitarian Logistics in the 4th Industrial Revolution Chapter 10. Humanitarian Logistics: The Way Forward

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Book SynopsisThe Agri-Food industry currently faces a range of challenges, from food safety and security, demand, and supply gaps to the maintenance of product quality and issues in product traceability. Smart digital technologies have opened a complete paradigm shift, providing solutions to these challenges, and helping move towards safe, resilient, responsive, and eventually profit-driven supply chains. The use of these digital technologies by Agri-Food supply chains can bring significant changes in food supply chain management by reducing food wastage, real-time product monitoring, and reducing scalability issues. Agri-Food 4.0: Innovations, Challenges and Strategies addresses new research on digital technologies in the industry, including smart packaging, smart warehousing, effective inventory control, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and other Industry 4.0 concepts. Agri-Food 4.0 explores the challenges and complexities in implementing such technologies, helping policymakers in the agri-food sector with impact assessment and digital transformation towards creating a sustainable industry.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Research Trends and Innovation Perspectives about Sustainability and Agri-Food 4.0; Capobianco Uriarte Maria de Las Mercedes, Cravero Ricardo, Regodesebes Alejandro, Grabois Marcelo, and Casado Belmonte Maria Pilar Chapter 2. Digital Technology: Implementation Challenges and Strategies in Agri-Food Supply Chains; Priyanka Vern, Naema Miftah, and Anupama Panghal Chapter 3. Modelling the Challenges for Agri-Food Supply Chain 4.0: TISM Approach; Shilpa Sindhu and Rupesh Kumar Chapter 4. An Overview for Food Loss and Waste Reduction in Food Supply Chains; Banu Y. Ekren and Vikas Kumar Chapter 5. Technological Advancement and Circular Economy Practices in Food Supply Chain; Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Muhammad Umar, Hafiz Muhammad Zia-ul-haq, and Zhang Yu Chapter 6. Blockchain-Based Smart Wheat Supply Chain Model in Indian Context; Shobha Rathore, Nainsi Gupta, A.P.S. Rathore, and Gunjan Soni Chapter 7. Drone Based Crop Product Quality Monitoring System: An Application of Smart Agriculture; Altaf Alam, Anurag Chauhan, Mohd Tauseef Khan, and Zainul Abdin Jaffery Chapter 8. Overview of IoT in the Agro-ecosystem; Mehul Parmar and Ranjan Kumar Chapter 9. Smart Irrigation System Using IoT; Amit Kumar, Praful Ranjan, and Vaibhav Saini Chapter 10. Digital Transformation: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Based Product Benefits and Problems of Agritech Industry; C. Ganeshkumar, Arokiaraj David, and D. Raja Jebasingh Chapter 11. Advancement in Packaging Technologies for Agri-Food Sector; Priyanka Dubey, Owais Yousuf, and Anupama Singh Chapter 12. Industry 4.0 Technologies in Agri-Food Supply Chains: Key Performance Indicators; Rohit Sharma Chapter 13. Robotics and Automation for Agri-Food 4.0: Innovation and Challenges; Rahul S Mor, Dinesh Kumar, Anupama Singh, Neethu K

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Book SynopsisThe manufacture and sale of counterfeit products is a widespread problem that affects a wide range of industries – from the pharmaceutical industry, electronics, and electrical equipment industry, clothing, footwear, to food, cosmetics, and luxury products industries. Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains explains the reasons behind the popularity of counterfeiting and fraud among both consumers and companies, a systematic and holistic overview and critical examination of the situations that have caused an increasing trend of those criminal activities. For all businesses, counterfeiting causes serious economic and social impact and can even be dangerous, posing health, privacy, and safety risks ranging from mild to life-threatening. Covering topics from the harmful effects of counterfeiting related to the environment, trade, foreign investment, employment, innovation, and criminality, Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains documents the unregulated production and the use of dangerous machinery and materials to attain a high profit margin. Counterfeiting and Fraud in Supply Chains boosts the existing knowledge about the profoundly multi-faceted dimension of the counterfeiting market, comprising the work of a team of theorists and practitioners who characterize a multidisciplinary approach to counterfeiting and fraud.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Investigating the Landscape of Research on Counterfeiting Products and Goods: A Systematic Literature Review Using Science Mapping; Jasna Kovačević and Almir Peštek Chapter 2. Insights in Toxic Counterfeit Cuisine; Saskia M. van Ruth, Lintianxiang Chen, Anika Dick, and Sara W. Erasmusa Chapter 3. Frauds in Food Supply Chains: The Case of Croatian Market; Željka Mesić and Josip Juračak Chapter 4. Fraud Vulnerability in the Organic Food Supply Chain in Serbia: Analysis of Farmers, Packagers, Importers and Retailers; Goran Petković, Dubravka Užar, and Aleksa Dokić Chapter 5. Industry 4.0 Technology Enablers' Guardian Role in Food Fraud Prevention; Aleksandra Nikolić, Alen Mujčinović, and Dušanka Bošković Chapter 6. Trade in Counterfeit Products in Conditions of Crisis caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic; Sreten Ćuzović, Svetlana Sokolov Mladenović, and Đorđe Ćuzović Chapter 7. The Importance of Intellectual Property Law in the Prevention of Selling Counterfeit Products Online; Katerina Toshevska-Trpchevska, Irena Kikerkova, Elena Makrevska Disoska, and Ljuben Kocev Chapter 8. Tackling the Counterfeit Goods Trade in Tanzania: Reflections on the Anti-counterfeiting Criminal Law; Eugene E. Mniwasa Chapter 9. Understanding Factors behind Consumption of Counterfeit Goods in Developing Economy; Felix Adamu Nandonde Chapter 10. Consumer concerns on Counterfeiting in the Fashion Supply Chain: Gen Y and Z point of view; Sanda Soucie Chapter 11. Analysis of Attitudes of Consumers in Bosnia and Herzegovina toward Counterfeit Products; Almir Peštek and Ajša Katica

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Book SynopsisIn April 2018 more than 150 researchers from 16 different countries convened at MIT for the second SCALE Latin American Conference on Supply Chain Management and Logistics (SCM&L). This edited book presents 18 papers on SCML in Latin America which emerged from this conference. As a region with more than 640 million people, and an economy that grows faster than those of developed regions, Latin America is the subject of large infrastructure projects and heightened interest from multinational companies. With contributors spanning eleven different countries, and comprising MIT faculty and researchers, and academics from prestigious Latin American institutions, this collection covers a variety of relevant topics in SCM&L for the region, and also addresses its lack of cases and applied examples. With cases from Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Paraguay, this book breaks fresh ground by looking at risk analysis, and small firms supply chain management. Making a solid contribution to the regional needs for SCM&L literature for education, research, and practice, this book is relevant to researchers and professionals living and operating in the region, as well as in developing economies beyond.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The impact of environmental risks in Supply Chain Resilience; Camil Martinez, John Patrick Paraskevas, Curt Grimm, Thomas Corsi, Sandor Boyson Chapter 3. NGO´s supplier selection and procurement cost reduction with multidimensional auctions; Joice Ribeiro, Irineu de Brito Jr and Hugo Yoshizaki Chapter 4. A collaborative assessment of promotions performance using financial KPIs.; Jorge Garcia, Ana Maria Castañeda, Andres Cardenas, Juan David Suarez, Daniel Prato Chapter 5. A hierarchical analysis approach to assess packaging supply chain issues; Alicia Pérez, José Villena, Diego Matuk, Ana Luna and Mario Chong Chapter 6. Data-Driven Solutions for Evaluating and Planning Last Mile Operations in Latin America. A Methodological Approach Focused in Quito, Ecuador; Bernardo Puente, Clara Orellana, Carlos Suárez Chapter 7. Identifying underlying Urban Logistics factors in Old Downtown of Córdoba, Argentina; Gerardo Heckmann, David Hidalgo Chapter 8. Risk Analysis of Transporting Goods by Road in Brazil; Luiz Barreto Silva, Alessandro Silva, Reginaldo Ferreira Chapter 9 . Daily Train Scheduling in Seaport Terminal: a MILP approach; Lucas Guedes, Allan Bretas, Carlos Faria, Bruno Medeiros, Breno Moreira Chapter 10. Supply Chain Management for Micro and Small Firms in Latin America; Josué Velázquez, Cansu Tayaksi Chapter 11. Collaborative Inventory Replenishment: Discussions and Insights of a Cost-effective Alternative for Non-competitive Small and Medium-sized Enterprises; Carlos Otero, René Amaya, Jairo Montoya, Miguel Jaller Chapter 12. Adoption of Best Business and Supply Chain Practices and Micro/Small Firms Performance: Evidence from Northern Peru; Brenda Silupu, Marcos Agurto, Gianmarco Merino, Jennifer Uchofen, Josué Velazquez Chapter 13. Managers’ knowledge of Key Performance Indicators in Small and Medium Enterprises: wood and timber SME´s in Peru; Jenny Yalico, Maria Ortiz, José Larco, Alejandro Gallego, Claudia Antonini Chapter 14. Increasing the Nanostores' Competitiveness in Different Socioeconomic Levels; Maria Espinosa, José Hernandez, Eduardo Pale, David Salinas, Chris Mejia Chapter 15. A Discrete Choice Model for Retailer Selection in Emerging Markets; Miguel Ávila, José Larco, Claudia Antonini, Maria Ortiz, Chris Mejia

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Book SynopsisAn award-winning journalist’s investigation into Amazon’s true impact on inequality. The market value of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dollars. In 2020, its annual revenue increased by over 100 billion dollars. As the company insinuates itself ever further into our lives, Alec MacGillis investigates how it is reshaping society. With empathy and breadth, he tells the stories of those who’ve thrived and struggled in this rapidly changing environment, and shows how Amazon has even become a force in Washington, DC. The result is an intimate account of contemporary capitalism: its drive to innovate, its dark, pitiless magic, and its remaking of our world with every click.Trade Review‘It’s a meticulous, devastating indictment of Amazon’s effect on individuals and communities. It prompted me to stop shopping at Whole Foods, which was bought by Amazon in 2017.’ -- Curtis Sittenfield * The Guardian *‘Alec MacGillis is one of the very best reporters in America. By always going his own way, he finds stories and truths that others avoid. Fulfillment paints a devastating picture of Amazon, but it also gives human voices to the larger story of our unequal economy and society. Fulfillment is an essential book in the literature of America’s self-destruction.’ -- George Packer, staff writer at The Atlantic, author of Our Man and the National Book Award-winning The Unwinding‘Fulfillment is journalism at its very best: a powerful panoramic account of America’s skyrocketing inequality across people and places. Drawing on both big-picture economics and his own brilliant reporting, Alec MacGillis tells the gripping story of Amazon’s meteoric rise, the economic and political elites who’ve profited from it, and the ordinary citizens who've too often borne its costs.’ -- Jacob Hacker, professor at Yale University and co-author of Let Them Eat Tweets‘Fulfillment vividly details the devastating costs of Amazon’s dominance and brutal business practices, showcasing an economy that has concentrated in private hands staggering wealth and power while impoverishing workers, crushing independent business, and supplanting public governance with private might. A critical read.’ -- Lina Khan, associate professor at Columbia Law School and author of Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox‘Anyone who orders from Amazon needs to read these moving and enraging stories of how one person’s life savings, one life’s work, one multigenerational tradition, one small business, one town after another, are demolished by one company’s seemingly unstoppable machine. They are all the more enraging because Alec MacGillis shows so clearly how things could have been different.’ -- Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Strangers Drowning‘Alec MacGillis practises journalism with ambition, tenacity, and empathy that will command your awe. Like one of the great nineteenth-century novels, Fulfillment studies a social ill with compelling intimacy and panoramic thoroughness. In the process, Jeff Bezos’s dominance and its costs are made real — and it becomes impossible to one-click again the same.’ -- Franklin Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of World Without Mind‘For a generation, inequality has been rising relentlessly in the United States — not just inequality of income and wealth, but also inequality of power and geography. In Fulfillment, Alec MacGillis brings this crisis vividly alive by creating a broad tableau of the way one giant company, Amazon, affects the lives of people and places across the country. This book should be read as a call to action against the new economy’s continuing assault on working people, small businesses, and left-behind places.’ -- Nicholas Lemann, author of Transaction Man‘Martin Luther King, Jr, wrote that all work has dignity if it pays an adequate wage. Alec MacGillis explains why some of America’s richest people and largest corporations don’t seem to care. He has an uncanny ability to weave together the stories of those whose fortunes are soaring with the stories of those whose lives are falling into hopelessness.’ -- Sherrod Brown, US Senator from Ohio and author of Desk 88‘A rich sociology of the world that Amazon has made … [MacGillis’s] central story is about the way that a business that cuts out economic middlemen and shared spaces of commerce and circulation, from brick-and-mortar Main Streets to shopping malls, inherently contributes to our grim geographic polarisation … His overall story has a bleak and ineluctable momentum.’ -- Ross Douthat * The New York Times *‘MacGillis has set out to do something different. The Amazon depicted in Fulfillment is both a cause and a metaphor. It’s an actual engine behind the regional inequality that has made parts of the United States “incomprehensible to one another”, he writes, stymieing a sense of national solidarity … The result is galloping prosperity for some Americans and unrelenting precarity for others … MacGillis suggests that one-click satisfactions distract us from taking in the bigger picture, whose contours can only be discerned with a patient and immersive approach.’ -- Jennifer Szalai * The New York Times *‘A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide … This is much more than a story of retail. It’s about real estate. It’s about lobbying, data centres, and the CIA … It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effectively.’ -- Carolyn Kellogg * Los Angeles Times *‘In Alec MacGillis’s urgent book, Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America, true fulfillment is elusive in Amazon’s America. Through interviews, careful investigative reporting, and vignettes from across the country, MacGillis deftly unravels the strong grip Amazon has on the United States … [Through] deeply humanising portraits of communities impacted by Amazon, MacGillis gives us a picture of contemporary America as mere survival under precarity.’ -- Xiaowei Wang * The New York Times Book Review *‘Alec MacGillis ably catalogs the many ways in which Amazon’s breakneck expansion has left social wreckage in its wake … MacGillis's lens is wide, capturing images of a country in which many people’s living standards are falling and entire regions are left behind.’ -- Marc Levinson * The Wall Street Journal *‘A ground-level tour of the United States of Amazon … The individual stories in Fulfillment are chilling … [This book] is also the story of a political system captivated by the idea that what is good for Amazon is good for America.’ -- James Kwak * The Washington Post *‘MacGillis understands the bargain Amazon offers the public and explores the consequences of that bargain with a sharp, humane eye. He succeeds in telling a story about Amazon from the bottom up — the right way to scrutinize a company that projects a progressive image.’ -- Sarah Jones * New York *‘Alec MacGillis takes the ubiquity of [Amazon] and blows it up into something on the scale of Homer’s Odyssey in his new book … MacGillis’s story is as emotional as it is analytical — he visits characters and industries affected by Amazon, demonstrating over and over again that the empire is irreparably changing every aspect of American life as we know it … Sometimes the things we see every day become invisible. MacGillis asks us to look closer.’ -- Amy Pedulla * The Boston Globe *‘Fulfillment is a mind-bogglingly thorough book, a hybrid of urban history, reportage, profile, and research on people and places that have been impacted by [Amazon] … MacGillis is equally adept in animating the economic picture … A compendium of tragedies large and small.’ -- Elizabeth Greenwood * San Francisco Chronicle *‘[Fulfillment’s] value at this moment in history is unmistakable. MacGillis has written an illuminating and richly reported portrait, not of a company, but of the country it has helped to reshape. Fulfillment leaves the reader with the sense the pandemic has closed one chapter on this story, and is about to open another.’ -- Sarah O'Connor * Financial Times *‘In Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America, MacGillis argues that Amazon’s dramatic expansion is Exhibit A for America’s economic unravelling. Armed with stark statistics and moving anecdotes, MacGillis illustrates how the retail giant pushes regional stores out of business. He shows how the company extracts tax incentives from desperate local governments in exchange for poor-paying warehouse jobs … A damning and powerful assessment.’ -- Daniel Block * Washington Monthly *‘Alec MacGillis’s important contribution, in Fulfillment, is to point out that the key divide is between a sliver of the professional-managerial elite in winner-takes-all cities and everyone else. The book is a must-read for those interested in what drives economic populism.’ -- Joan C. Williams * TLS *‘[A] wide-ranging, impressionistic tour of a nation whose citizens’ existence has become intertwined with a single corporation ... As MacGillis notes, understanding how a single corporation became so widely and deeply entrenched requires historical perspective … he explores what the erosion of power and possibility means for regular people … Addressing the regional imbalances in America would be an enormous undertaking, and MacGillis doesn’t presume to offer prescriptions. But his book suggests one very big place to start: Serious workplace reforms would affect hundreds of thousands of workers, as well as help reshape the broader labor landscape.’ -- Vauhini Vara * The Atlantic *‘In his excellent new book, Fulfillment, the journalist Alec MacGillis examines American inequality and economic desperation through the lens of Amazon’s growth and rapid domination. The company almost seems to personify economic imbalances.’ -- Farhad Manjoo * The New York Times *‘The defining business book of the COVID-19 pandemic … A powerful and timely work.’ -- Richard Warnica * Toronto Star *‘[C]aptures America’s queasy relationship with its newest retail titan. What it reveals is a country that has been falling apart for quite some time, and a company that has been willing and able to turn a failure of public policy into private power … The book is less an examination of the company than an examination of America through its lens … Each chapter of Fulfillment is a beautifully written and sometimes overwhelmingly detailed story. You get the feeling that MacGillis is fighting to overcome the perceived gap between his likely white-collar, winners-taking-all readers, and the workers he writes about, through sheer force of detail. In this, the book has something in common with classic works that exposed the plight of the poor to those better off, like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier or Michael Harrington’s The Other America … What MacGillis’s book makes obvious is that Amazon will not stop squeezing every drop from workers until those workers have more power.’ -- Sarah Leonard * The New Republic *‘Searing … rigorous research and gut-tightening insights.’ -- Noel Baker * Irish Examiner *‘An economic history of the country, shaped by an intimate introduction to people living and working in Amazon’s shadow as their home cities and states transform around them … [Their] personal stories are sweeping and in-depth … MacGillis lays out, with detail gathered through freedom of information requests, exactly how Amazon methodically built its presence.’ -- Alina Selyukh * NPR *‘[Amazon] is the campfire we have chosen to commune around, and MacGillis’ book takes a wide, expansive look at how this campfire has become a firestorm whose embers incinerate the very workers, consumers, and communities that are drawn to this warm, culture-eating glow … MacGillis asks us to truly process what Amazon’s pandemic profitability means for the nation … The takeaway is quite sobering: “The fates of the company and the nation had diverged entirely.”’ -- Patrick McGinty * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *‘A probing, character-driven report on Amazon’s impact on the American economy and labor practices … This cogent and wide-ranging study sounds the alarm bells.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘[A] probing, panoramic view of the socio-economic state of the US through the lens of its most ubiquitous company … Encompassing histories of labour, manufacturing, lobbying, and technology and addressing the country’s growing inequalities in wealth and housing, MacGillis’ guide to this America is heavily detailed and filled with staggering stories and figures … MacGillis’ sprawling, fascinating account presses pause on the continuously unfurling effects of a monolithic company on not only our consumption, but also our livelihoods, communities, and government.’ * Booklist *‘Calling on a sweeping array of personal vignettes and tracing out lengthy historical through lines, MacGillis chronicles life across Amazonia through the eyes of drivers, pickers, sorters, corrugated-cardboard manufacturers, politicians, lobbyists, activists, artists, and more … To understand Amazon is to understand trade policy, deindustrialisation, the collapse of unions, the demise of antitrust enforcement, the death of newspapers, campaign finance laws, the history of lobbying, real estate prices, regional inequality, and tax policy. Amazon, of course, is the Everything Store; is it not, too, the Everything Story?’ -- Alexander Sammon * The American Prospect *‘Fulfillment is a reporter’s book, told largely through personal stories … Intertwined inequalities, for MacGillis, are the defining feature of the modern US economy … And Amazon, as Fulfillment effectively details, is both a key driving force in this story and a malevolent exemplar of its consequences.’ -- Colin Gordon * Jacobin *‘MacGillis’ skills as a journalist … are on full display in Fulfillment, which gracefully interweaves the personal histories of people trying to get by in what the writer aptly calls “the landscape of inequality across the country” with an account of the big-picture events and political/market manipulations that sculpted that terrain … [full of] sober, clear-eyed analysis and emotionally involving stories.’ -- Ashley Naftule * AV Club *‘Fulfillment addresses the human impact of current technologies and economic inequality with rare power. People in tech don’t often think about the ramifications of their work; Alec MacGillis reminds us that it has consequences, and that even if there are no clear solutions, we have a moral imperative to consider its effects.’ -- Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist‘Drawing on interviews with Amazon workers and other sources, the author excels at showing how the Seattle-based company plays communities against one another in seeking sites for new facilities that may promise only modest job growth ... the book abounds with useful information for anyone weighing the costs and benefits of having an online behemoth come to town. A sobering portrait of how Amazon is remaking America.’ * Kirkus Reviews *‘Gets under the skin of America’s forgotten communities … excellent.’ -- James Bloodworth * The Critic *‘[M]illions of people have availed themselves of the ease and ubiquity of Amazon’s easy shopping … if Fulfillment makes even a few thousand of those consumers more mindful, if it prompts even a few thousand of them to remember that they have shops over on their Main Street that badly need their support and will greet them with smiles rather than an Amazon van dashing away in the dead of night, well, that will be a kind of victory.’ -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *‘Using the tech giant as a focal point allows MacGillis to show that this state of affairs was a choice, not an inevitability. It’s not that “good jobs left”; the transformation of work was engineered. Fulfillment meticulously documents how that process plays out, with the fate of millions haggled over by a handful of people in tucked-away conference rooms.’ -- Alex Press * Bookforum *‘MacGillis’ main conclusions are simply but forcefully expresses … his approach os well-read, well-travelled and distinctly quirky … MacGillis plainly knows and cares a great deal about his subject.’ -- Mark Thomas * Redland City Bulletin *‘Outstanding … This book is absolutely essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in the politics of work, the dynamics of corporate power, and late capitalism. It is also a crucial cautionary tale for us in Australia, where the true extent of an Amazon-dominated future has not yet been realised.’ -- Alison Huber * Readings *‘[Alec MacGillis] tells the stories of ordinary people coping with seismic changes that have a neo-Dickensian ring. There’s a touch of a latter-day Steinbeck to this snap-shot of the US now, and the rest of the world.’ -- Steven Carroll * The Sydney Morning Herald *‘[M]acGillis outlines the reality of the American dream through stories of ordinary people … This fascinating, salutary tale is about an America remade by lawmakers who served the highest bidder, not the people who elected them.’ -- Robyn Douglass * SA Weekend *‘[Fulfillment is] a panoptic look at Amazon and the nation engulfed by what the author calls its ‘lengthening shadow’. Beyond a mere examination of Amazon’s internal politics … MacGillis’s book traces the lineaments of an America weathered by vast regional and economic disparities, increasing political polarisation, and a fracturing national cohesion.’ -- Jack Callil * Australian Book Review *

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Book SynopsisThis tutorial introduces readers to several variants of routing problems with profits. In these routing problems each node has a certain profit, and not all nodes need to be visited. Since the orienteering problem (OP) is by far the most frequently studied problem in this category of routing problems, the book mainly focuses on the OP. In turn, other problems are presented as variants of the OP, focusing on the similarities and differences. The goal of the OP is to determine a subset of nodes to visit and in which order, so that the total collected profit is maximized and a given time budget is not exceeded.The book provides a comprehensive review of variants of the OP, such as the team OP, the team OP with time windows, the profitable tour problem, and the prize-collecting travelling salesperson problem. In addition, it presents mathematical models and techniques for solving these OP variants and discusses their complexity. Several simple examples and benchmark instances, together with their best-known results, are also included. Finally, the book reviews the latest applications of these problems in the fields of logistics, tourism and others.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Definitions and Mathematical Models of Single Vehicle Routing.- Definitions and Mathematical Models of OP Variants.- State-of-the-Art Solution Techniques for PTP and PCTSP.- State-of-the-Art Solution Techniques for OP and TOP.- State-of-the-Art Solution Techniques for OPTW and TOPTW.- Applications of the OP.- Other Orienteering Problem Variants.

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Book SynopsisSeaport Container Terminals (SCT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks, and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels, as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows has gained enormously over the last five decades frequently leading to double-digit annual growth rates for the SCT. The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Terminal Planning also deals with problems being induced by questions of terminal development on a long-term basis (strategic level). Facing present and upcoming challenges for SCT operation—such as more and more mega vessels, extremely high hinterland peaks, higher environmental standards, less public acceptance and the stronger competition between terminals serving the same hinterland—the focus of the book is on successful approaches and solutions primarily addressing the planning of terminal structures. Nevertheless, operational aspects are considered, as well as how they effectively contribute to problem solving on the strategic level.Table of ContentsPart I Introduction.- Chapter1. General Considerations on Terminal Planning, Innovations and Challenges.- Part II Basic Aspects.- Chapter2. Advanced Simulation Technology in Planning, Implementation and Operation of Container Terminals to Cope with the Varying Challenges Caused by the Shipping Industry (Holger Sch¨utt).- Chapter3. Modeling Techniques in Planning of Terminals: The Quantitative Approach Ensuring planning becomes reality – even in challenging times (Yvo A. Saanen).- Chapter4. Comparison of Fleet Size Determination Models for Horizontal Transportation of Shipping Containers using Automated Straddle Carriers (Bani Anvari, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, James Morley, Dimitris Pachakis,and Panayotis Angeloudis).- Chapter5. Automation and Electric Drives (Joan C. Rijsenbrij and Armin Wieschemann).- Chapter6. From Digitalization to Data-Driven Decision Making in Container Terminals (Leonard Heilig, Robert Stahlbock, and Stefan Voß).- Chapter7. Pavements for Container Terminals (David Schnabel).- Chapter8. Quay Wall Structures in Container Sea Ports and Influences on the Design (Jan Meyer).- Chapter9. The Value of a Cluster and Network Orientation for Container Terminals (Peter W. de Langen).- Chapter10. The Impact of Air Emissions Regulations on Terminals (Orestis Schinas).- Part III Seaside Access & Terminal Quayside.- Chapter11. Cost and Performance Evaluation Impacts of Container Ships on Seaport Container Terminals – An Update.- Chapter12. Ensuring Navigational Safety and Mitigate Maritime Traffic Risks while Designing Port Approaches and Ship Maneuvering Areas (Hans-Christoph Burmeister).- Chapter13. ITSS – The Integrated Terminal Ship System (Johannes March).- Chapter14. Planning Approach for Quayside Dimensioning of Automated Traffic Areas and Impact on Equipment Investment (Michael Ranau).- Chapter15. Raising Efficiency of Straddle Carrier Operations by Twin Container Handling (Ren´e Eisenberg, Thomas Koch, Marcel Petersen and Frank Wagner).- Part IV Planning Area.- Chapter16. Container Rehandling at Maritime Container Terminals: A Literature Update (Marco Caserta, Silvia Schwarze, and Stefan Voß).- Chapter17. State-of-the-art Yard Crane Scheduling and Stacking (Nils Kemme).- Chapter18. Comparison and Optimization of Automated Yard Crane Systems at Container Terminals (Ulf Speer and Kathrin Fischer)Chapter19. Optimal Stack Layout Configurations at Automated Container Terminals Using Queuing Network Models (Debjit Roy and Ren´e de Koster).- Part V Terminal Landside & Hinterland Access.- Chapter20. Port Feeder Barges as a Means to Improve Intra-port Container Logistics in Multi-terminal Ports (Ulrich Malchow).- Chapter21. Drayage Port – City Trucking (Jens Froese).- Chapter22. Port and Dry Port Life Cycles (Gordon Wilmsmeier and Jason Monios).- Chapter23. Flashlight on Intermodal Transport Innovation in European Seaport Hinterland (Thore Arendt).- Chapter24. Importance of Hinterland Transport Network Structures for Seaport Container Terminals – An Update (Joachim R. Daduna and Robert Stahlbock).

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Book SynopsisSince 2007, the biennial International Conferences on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC) offers researchers and practitioners from logistics, operations research, production, industrial and electrical engineering as well as from computer science an opportunity to meet and to discuss the latest developments in this particular research domain. From February 12th to 14th 2020 for the seventh time, LDIC 2020 is held in Bremen, Germany. Similar to its six predecessors, the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics) organizes this conference. The spectrum of topics reaches from the dynamic modeling, planning and control of processes over supply chain management and maritime logistics to innovative technologies and robotic applications for cyber-physical production and logistics systems. LDIC 2020 provides a forum for the discussion of advances in that matter. The conference program consists of three invited keynote speeches and 51 papers selected by a severe double-blind reviewing process. Within these proceedings all the papers are published. By this, the proceedings give an interdisciplinary outline on the state of the art of dynamics in logistics as well as identify challenges and solutions for logistics today and tomorrow.Table of ContentsMaritime Logistics.- Supply Chain Management and Coordination.- Multi-modal Transport.- Intra-Logistics Systems.- Collaborative Planning and Control.- Internet of Things and Services.- Sensor Networks in Logistics.- Human-Machine Interaction.- Mathematical Optimisation for Planning and Scheduling.- Agent-Based Modelling and Optimization .

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Book SynopsisWhy do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers? What are the origin and history of the bulb and flower industry in the Netherlands? How are Artificial Intelligence (AI), complex algorithms, and modern distribution systems ensuring that fresh flowers reach their destination on time? This very entertaining and informative book introduces readers to the global flower business, and highlights the surprising factors that helped the Dutch become global leaders on the flower markets. The book reveals the complexity of the flower markets in terms of their ability to produce, transport, and deliver fresh flowers on a global scale. In addition, it explores how information advantage is created by blending business with technology, from robotized glasshouses to the use of AI-driven algorithms for flower production and distribution. In closing, the book presents lessons learned regarding the circular and digital transformation of the high-speed flower business and markets in order to deliver sustainable value for customers.Combining the light beauty of flowers with the harsh language of the digital universe is a masterfully executed task in this book, organized as a bouquet of algorithms, data science, and digital platforms. Mandatory reading for all those interested in the flower business as well as for those who want to know more about the perfume emanating from digital systems. Eduardo Diniz Professor and Head of the Technology and Data Science Department, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil This unique book leads you through the bulb fields and auctions of the Netherlands, through history, logistics, auction design, and Internet technology, to draw lessons in business management from the study of flowers. With beautiful illustrations. A tour de force.John Kay Economist, Author of Radical Uncertainty and Greed is Dead, and Fellow, St. John’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom If you want to understand the impact of information and technology on a fascinat- ing industry, this book is a must-read. The author explains in a highly intriguing way how innovations propelled the flower industry from the sixteenth century till today. Whether you are working in the flower industry, a business student, academic, or just intrigued by the business behind flowers, you will enjoy this book! Martin Mocker Professor of Information Systems, ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany. Research Affiliate, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research, Cambridge, USATable of ContentsPeople Love Flowers.- Tulip Bulbs.- Glass City.- Dutch Flower Auctions.- Flower Bouquets and Ecosystems.- Blooming Algorithms.- The Future Is Circular and Digital.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from an assortment of technologies as they relate to Operations Management and Finance. The book contains primers on operations, finance, and their interface. After that, each section contains chapters in the categories of theory, applications, case studies, and teaching resources. These technologies and business models include Big Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, 3D printing, sharing platforms, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing.The balance between theory, applications, and teaching materials make this book an interesting read for academics and practitioners in operations and finance who are curious about the role of new technologies. The book is an attractive choice for PhD-level courses and for self-study. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Primer on Operations, Finance, and Their Interface.- Chapter 2. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing.- Chapter 3. Blockchain.- Chapter 4. FinTech and OpTech.- Chapter 5. Supply Chain Finance.- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robots.- Chapter 7. Analytics, IoT (Internet of Things), Virtual Reality, Connectivity, and Big Data.- Chapter 8. On-demand and Sharing Platforms.- Chapter 9. 3D Printing.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from an assortment of technologies as they relate to Operations Management and Finance. It contains primers on operations, finance, and their interface. Innovative technologies and new business models enabled by those technologies are changing the practice and the theory of Operations Management and Finance, as well as their interface. These technologies and business models include Big Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, 3D printing, sharing platforms, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing. The book will be an attractive choice for PhD-level courses and for self-study.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Primer on Operations, Finance, and Their Interface.- Chapter 2. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing.- Chapter 3. Blockchain.- Chapter 4. FinTech and OpTech.- Chapter 5. Supply Chain Finance.- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robots.- Chapter 7. Analytics, IoT (Internet of Things), Virtual Reality, Connectivity, and Big Data.- Chapter 8. On-demand and Sharing Platforms.- Chapter 9. 3D Printing.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research on classical supply chain management, digitalized business processes, production engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and mathematical optimization. To celebrate 25 years of interdisciplinary and collaborative research conducted at the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), in this book hand-picked experts currently or formerly affiliated with the Cluster provide retrospectives, present cutting-edge research, and outline future research directions.Table of ContentsPart I: Models and Methods for Planning in Logistics.- Autonomous Control of Logistics Processes – A Retrospective.- Explorable Uncertainty meets Decision-Making in Logistics.- Complex Networks in Manufacturing and Logistics: A Retrospect.- Recent Developments in Mathematical Traffic Models.- Part II: Digitalization and Logistics.- Intelligent Agents for Social and Learning Logistics Systems.- Semantic Interoperability for Logistics and Beyond.- Semantic Digital Twins for Retail Logistics.- A Demand-Response System for Sustainable Manufacturing Using Linked Data and Machine Learning.- The Influence of Cognitive Biases in Production Logistics.- Part III: Fields of Application in Logistics.- Automobile Logistics 4.0 – Advances through Digitalization.- 15 Years of Intelligent Container Research.- The Rise of Ultra Large Container Vessels: Implications for Seaport Systems and Environmental Considerations.- Modeling individualized sustainable last mile logistics.- Logistics Challenges along the New Silk Roads.- Observations and Perceptions on a Doctoral Research Seminar in Engineering and Logistics.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research on classical supply chain management, digitalized business processes, production engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and mathematical optimization. To celebrate 25 years of interdisciplinary and collaborative research conducted at the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), in this book hand-picked experts currently or formerly affiliated with the Cluster provide retrospectives, present cutting-edge research, and outline future research directions.Table of ContentsPart I: Models and Methods for Planning in Logistics.- Autonomous Control of Logistics Processes – A Retrospective.- Explorable Uncertainty meets Decision-Making in Logistics.- Complex Networks in Manufacturing and Logistics: A Retrospect.- Recent Developments in Mathematical Traffic Models.- Part II: Digitalization and Logistics.- Intelligent Agents for Social and Learning Logistics Systems.- Semantic Interoperability for Logistics and Beyond.- Semantic Digital Twins for Retail Logistics.- A Demand-Response System for Sustainable Manufacturing Using Linked Data and Machine Learning.- The Influence of Cognitive Biases in Production Logistics.- Part III: Fields of Application in Logistics.- Automobile Logistics 4.0 – Advances through Digitalization.- 15 Years of Intelligent Container Research.- The Rise of Ultra Large Container Vessels: Implications for Seaport Systems and Environmental Considerations.- Modeling individualized sustainable last mile logistics.- Logistics Challenges along the New Silk Roads.- Observations and Perceptions on a Doctoral Research Seminar in Engineering and Logistics.

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Book SynopsisThe concepts for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will fundamentally change supply chains, production processes and industries. Intelligent technologies such as IoT, edge and cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and digital assistance systems are drivers of this change. This book provides a comprehensive overview of IoT use cases with illustrative practical examples of how digitization or innovation projects can be successfully implemented. It takes into consideration that processes are getting more flexible and efficient, and new digital technologies allow seamless, location-independent communication in near real time between things, processes and people through the digitization of physical objects and processes. Considering these changes, the book provides a guideline on how companies should position themselves for the future with industrial IoT in order to still play a decisive role in the industry in a few years' time. The book is aimed at both decision-makers and practitioners who, on the one hand, recognize the opportunities and possibilities for their company and, on the other hand, want to learn how to use the appropriate technologies. With this in mind it will be valuable for entrepreneurs, managers, architects and also developers in the field of Industry 4.0.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Connected Things: People, Machines and Plants in the Internet of Things (IoT).- Chapter 2. Blueprint for IoT Systems.- Chapter 3. IoT Platforms.- Chapter 4. IoT and Enterprise Software.- Chapter 5. Interaction of IoT with Other Technologies.- Chapter 6. Prepare IoT Projects Successfully.- Chapter 7. Use Cases for the Internet of Things.- Chapter 8. From Project to IoT Strategy.

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Book SynopsisThis book explains concepts and techniques for business analytics and demonstrate them on real life applications for managers and practitioners. It illustrates how machine learning and optimization techniques can be used to implement intelligent business automation systems. The book examines business problems concerning supply chain, marketing & CRM, financial, manufacturing and human resources functions and supplies solutions in Python. Table of ContentsPART I: TBA.- Chapter 1. Business Analytics for Managers.- Chapter 2. Big Data Management and Technologies.- Chapter 3. Descriptive Analytics: Feature Engineering & Data Visualization.- Chapter 4. Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning.- Chapter 5. Neural Networks and Deep Learning.- Chapter 6. Handling Unstructured Data: Text Analytics and Image Analysis.- Chapter 7. Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization and Modelling.- ​PART II: TBA.- Chapter 8. Supply Chain Analytics.- Chapter 9. CRM & Marketing Analytics.- Chapter 10. Financial Analytics.- Chapter 11. Human Resources Analytics.- Chapter 12. Manufacturing Analytics.

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Book SynopsisThis book explains concepts and techniques for business analytics and demonstrate them on real life applications for managers and practitioners. It illustrates how machine learning and optimization techniques can be used to implement intelligent business automation systems. The book examines business problems concerning supply chain, marketing & CRM, financial, manufacturing and human resources functions and supplies solutions in Python. Table of ContentsPART I: TBA.- Chapter 1. Business Analytics for Managers.- Chapter 2. Big Data Management and Technologies.- Chapter 3. Descriptive Analytics: Feature Engineering & Data Visualization.- Chapter 4. Predictive Analytics with Machine Learning.- Chapter 5. Neural Networks and Deep Learning.- Chapter 6. Handling Unstructured Data: Text Analytics and Image Analysis.- Chapter 7. Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization and Modelling.- ​PART II: TBA.- Chapter 8. Supply Chain Analytics.- Chapter 9. CRM & Marketing Analytics.- Chapter 10. Financial Analytics.- Chapter 11. Human Resources Analytics.- Chapter 12. Manufacturing Analytics.

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Book SynopsisEvery global crisis highlights the strategic importance of industrial and non-profit supply chains for society. In terms of coping with unforeseen and unpredictable events, supply chain resilience enables the parties and networks involved to stay successful during and after the disruption. Furthermore, a resilient supply chain contributes to the sustainable competitive advantage of the entire value chain. Written by scholars and practitioners alike, this book not only puts forward a new framework for resilience in supply chain management, but also presents best practice cases from various areas and industries. As a particular highlight, it includes a Delphi study that gathers state-of-the-art insights from supply chain leaders. In addition to practical approaches, methods and tools, the book also offers food for thought on the future of supply chain resilience. As such, it offers a valuable resource for current and future managers in the public and private sector, as well as researchers and students engaged in this field.Table of ContentsPart I: Supply Chain Disruptions and Resilience.- 1. Definition and Development of Supply Chain Resilience.- 2. Supply Chain Resilience: A Decade of Evolvement.- 3. Supply Chain Resilience Framework.- 4. Supply Chain Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 5. Pandemic-Related Disruptions in the Field of Freight Transportation.- 6. Modern Slavery and Working Conditions in the European Trucking Industry: A Growing Threat to Supply Chain Resilience.- Part II: Measuring Resilience.- 7. Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience Through Incorporating Business Continuity Management Systems.- 8. Measuring and Fostering Supply Chain Resilience in the Humanitarian Context.- 9. The Value of Artificial Intelligence for More Resilient Supply Chains.- 10. Applying Blockchain Technologies for Increasing Supply Chain Resilience.- Part III: Achieving Resilience.- 11. Policy Options for Strengthening Resilience to Achieve Strategic Autonomy for Austria in a Disrupted World.- 12. Managing Supply Chain Resilience for Sustainability in an Uncertain World: Challenges and Solutions.- 13. Supply Chain Resilience in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- 14. Resilient Supply Chain Network Design: An Overview of Optimization Models.- Part IV: Resilience in Theory and Practice.- 15. Resilient Supply Chains: A Practical Guide for Successful Implementation.- 16. What Really Works: A Practitioner’s Critical Review on Supply Chain Resilience Research.- 17. Delphi Study on Supply Chain Resilience.- Part V: Supply Chain Resilience in Different Functional Areas.- 18. Commodity Price Risks: Strategies to Increase Supply Chain Resilience.- 19. Achieving Supply Chain Resilience Through Additive Manufacturing.- 20. Resilience in Warehousing.- 21. How to Successfully Master a Pandemic in a Global Distribution Network?.- 22. Resilience Strategies for Freight Transportation: An Overview of the Different Transport Modes Responses.- 23. Thoughts About Individual Resilience Impact to Team and Organization.- Part VI: Supply Chain Resilience in Different Industries.- 24. Resilient Supply Chains in the Parcel Shipping Sector.- 25. Deep Dive on Resilience in the Aviation Industry: Between Resilience for Short-Term Disruptions and Focus on Long-Term Preparedness.- 26. Semiconductor Supply Chain: A 360-Degree View of Supply Chain Risk and Network Resilience Based on GIS and AI.- 27. Ways to Build Resilient Inbound Transportation Logistics in the Automotive Industry.- 28. Overview of the Enablers of Humanitarian Supply Chain Resilience.- 29. Resilience and Military Supply Chain Management.- 30. Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisThe 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.Table of ContentsWhat is the supply chain?.- Physical Representation of the Supply Chain.- Representation of the SC through corporate functions.- Representation of the CS through information flows.- Representation of the supply chain through service flows.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this book is to encourage and inspire companies on their journey to transform into responsible and sustainable businesses by addressing the supply chain, which reflects a significant part of a company’s expenses and thus Table of ContentsPart I: Setting the Scene.- 1. The Challenge of Our Lifetime.- 2. Make a Difference.- Part II: From Ambition to Impact.- 3. Develop Purpose, Ambition Level, and Strategy.- 4. Anchor Sustainability into the Operating Model.- 5. Set Category Work and Suppliers in Motion.- 6. Create a Movement and Drive Transformation.- 7. Outlook 2030 and Conclusion.- 8. Sustainability in Action: Interviews with Experts.

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Book SynopsisThe book comprises high-quality refereed research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Logistics Engineering (ICAILE2022), held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20–22, 2022, organized jointly by the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute," Wuhan University of Technology, Nanning University, National Aviation University, and the International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science. The topics discussed in the book include state-of-the-art papers in artificial intelligence and logistics engineering. It is an excellent source of references for researchers, graduate students, engineers, management practitioners, and undergraduate students interested in artificial intelligence and its applications in logistics engineering.Table of ContentsAccelerating Simulation of the PDE Solution by the Structure of the Convolutional Neural Network Modifying.- Combined Machine Learning Model for Covid-19 Analysis and Forecasting in Ukraine.- Power Consumption Analysis at MAC-sublayer of Wireless Sensor Networks.- Optimal Control with Prediction for the Process of Vacuum Membrane Distillation.- Improved Quantum Genetic Algorithm on Multilevel Quantum Systems for 0-1 Knapsack Problem.- Edge Intelligence for Medical Applications under Field Conditions.- Multipath Routing in Intelligent Transport Networks.- Artificial Intelligence Platform for Distant Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CADx) of Human Diseases.- Modification of the LSB Implementation Method of Digital Watermarks.- Datalogical Model of Dialogue Script.- Modified Method of Cryptocurrency Exchange Rate Forecasting Based on ARIMA Class Models with Data Verification.- Electrocardiogram Effective Analysis Based on the Random Forest Model with Preselected Parameters.- Digital Technology: Emerging Issue for Agriculture.- Neural Network Method of Items Catalog Forming for Online Store.- Methods of Constructing a Lighting Control System for Wireless Sensor Network "Smart Home".- Material Planning with Hybrid Weed Invasion Algorithm under Cutting Problem Constraints.- Teaching Reform of Supply Chain Management Based on the Concept of Autonomous Learning.- Digitalization of the Educational Process of Training Future Engineering-teachers.- Application of POA in CET-4 Translation Teaching.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains the proceeding of the 26th International Conference on Production Research (ICPR). ICPR is a biennial conference that has been hosted for more than a half century. It is regarded worldwide as one of the leading conferences of production research, industrial engineering, and related subjects. The acute impact of the pandemic on human lives is spurring further research and advances: because modern life relies on production and supply networks. The future of production calls for transformative research exploiting the possibilities of artificial intelligence in particular to respond to the challenge of sustainability. This book is of interest to researchers, students, and professionals in industry.Table of Contents​1. Impact of the Pandemic on Industry and Production1. Development of Training System for Appearance Inspection Using Motion Capture and Large Size Display2. Worker Organization System for Collaborative Crowdsourcing3. Matrix Approach and Scheduling for Cooperation Requirement Planning in Industrial Robots4. Evaluation of Material-based GHG Emissions under COVID-19 Disruption on Redesigning Global Supply Chain Network across TPP Countries5. Modeling of Inventory Routing Problem with Intermediate Locations in Emergency Logistics Considering Uncertainty of Road Conditions6. Problem of Modeling Global and Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design7. Vehicle Relocation Scheduling Considering Charging Time for One-Way Electric Vehicle Car-Sharing Systems8. Prediction of COVID-19 Hospital Beds by On-Demand Cumulative-Control Analysis2. Digital and Cyber Manufacturing and Services9. A Study on Skill Transfer using Augmented Reality.10. Humanized Robot of New Method & Time System and its Management: A Digital Transformation Case of Convenience Store Type11. Profiles and Testing in OPC UA – Current State and Future Potentials in Industry 4.012. Manufacturing workflows in microservice architectures supporting digital transactions for business process automation13. Scheduling 3D Printing Machines to Minimize Makespan3. Manufacturing: System & Automation14. Electrode Tab Deflection Detection for Pouch Lithium-ion Battery Using Mask R-CNN15. Comparison of process chains of additive and conventional manufacturing16. To detect defects which are three-dimensional changes by using their bird's eye view images and convolutional neural networks17. A multi-objective fitness function for sequencing robotic assembly operations with deformable objects using a genetic algorithm with constraint satisfaction18. A State Tracing Method for the System Data Obeying Poisson Distribution19. Applying Data Driven Approach to Cluster Components for Preventive Maintenance20. Process simulation of compression molding process and effect of fiber content on recycled polymer natural fiber composites using Moldflow analysis21. A Combined Scheduling and Simulation Method to Analyze the Performance of the Dual-robot In-line Stocker22. A Study on the Optimal Assignment Rule in Parallel Production Systems with Two Special Workers23. Considering a Deteriorating EOQ Model under Stochastic Demand and Shortage Allowed4. Internet of Things, Data Analytics and Smart Manufacturing24. Assessing AI-readiness in production – a conceptual approach25. Architecture for Predictive Maintenance Based on Integrated Models, Methods and Technologies26. IoT framework and requirement for intelligent industrial pyrolysis process to recycle CFRP composite wastes: application study27. Approach of automated ML Algorithm Selection for the Realization of Intelligent Production28. A Case Study on Data Analytics based on Edge Computing for Smart Manufacturing System5. Supply Chain Management29. An integrated approach for resilient value creation among the lifecycle: Using the automotive industry as an example30. Theory of Agency in Supply Chain Finance: Taking a Hermeneutic Approach31. The Role of Machine Learning in Supply Chain Management32. Optimizing the supply of eucalyptus for agroindustry: a mathematical programming approach33. Green Television Supply Chain Under Capital Constraint for Achieving Environmental Sustainability34. Fuzzy Multi-Objective Mathematical Modelling for Distribution Planning35. Business Analysis of Electronic Device Manufacturers on Business Continuity Plans under Uncertain Supply Chain Disruption Risks36. A Vision for a Highly Automated Digital Local Manufacturing Network – Solutions and Challenges37. Digital Supply Chain and Blockchain: a Living Lab Perspective6. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research38. Proposal of a Firefly Algorithm with Three types of Functionally Differentiated Fireflies39. Applying Overall Equipment Effectiveness to Pipe Jacking Tunneling in Construction Industry40. How moderator variables affect scheduling objectives in unpaced mixed-model assembly lines41. Proposal of the Algorithm for Solving the Component Assignment Problem in a Linear Consecutive System with Three Failure Modes42. Metaheuristics based profit-oriented optimization model for the hazardous waste location routing problem43. A bi-objective integer linear optimization model for post-departure aircraft rerouting problem44. Forecasting the economic number of times sheet metal subject to corrosion should be painted before replacement45. Task allocation problem between human-robot collaboration team46. An exact algorithm for the monitoring problem by using drones47. A two-level Induced OWA procedure for ranking DMUs under a DEA cross-efficiency framework48. Simulation optimization for multi-product (s, S) inventory policy with stochastic demand49. Multi-manned Assembly Line Balancing Problem in a Diesel Engine Manufacturing Company: A Real-World Case Study50. Application of agile project management approaches in the automotive industry51. An operational form of bundling52. Multi-Objective Simulation Optimization Using Data Envelopment Analysis for Personnel Planning53. One-of-a-Kind productions in Industry 4.0 environments54. A novel graph-theoretical approach of selecting representative Pareto optimal solutions for multi-objective optimization problems55. Graph Model Based Bill of Material Structure for Coupling Product Development and Production Planning7. Logistics Engineering and Management 56. Intra-route Location Routing for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Transfers57. Method for Determining Loading Positions of Delivered Parcels by Genetic Algorithm with Three-Dimensional Modified BL Method with Multidirectional Reference Points58. Redesigning the Current Inventory Management Process for an SME 59. Investigation of transport logistics disruptions from urban floods: A case study of the Chinese coastal megacity - Guangzhou, China60. Locating street markets in smart cities: a view from mathematical modeling and urban planning perspectives8. Sustainable Production61. Smart Eco-factory – Aspects for next generation facilities supporting sustainable and high-tech production62. A Green Approach on Multiple Allocation Hub Covering Flow Problem63. A Linguistic MCDM Approach to Overcome Future Challenges of Vertical Farming9. New Product Development and Innovation Management64. A Study of Perceived Level of Difficulty for the Execution of the New Product Development Process65. Is that Innovation? Unlocking Vietnamese MedTech SMEs Innovation Pathways66. Crowd Engineering Platform –Functions supporting Co-Creation in product development67. Potential Contributions of Artificial Intelligence in Crowd Engineering68. Framework for the Identification of Fields of Innovation in the Product Environment via Text Mining and Semantic Networks69. A collaborative and interactive surface concept for early stages of new product development – a multi-stage expert study70. Interorganizational new product development: A future vision of project team support on an organizational, relational, and content-related collaboration level71. Using an Actual Design Method for the Design of Research Methodologies: Case of the Dichotomy Exploration and Exploitation in Context of Innovation Management72. Developing high-variant products and production systems in line with value stream requirements through simulation10. Quality Engineering and Management73. Variable Sampling Plan Indexed by Taguchi’s Quality Loss under Emphasized Difference of Mean74. Proposal and verification of quality control method by adjusting process mean in post-process11. Human Factors Engineering75. Examining the Correspondence of Cognitive Costs and the Mutual Information Criterion in Rational Inattention Models76. A Proposed Model for 3D Printing Education in the University77. Multimedia Skills Development to Support Engineering Studies12. Healthcare Management78. An Optimization Model on Patient Appointment Scheduling of MRI Diagnostic Examination with Prioritization79. Discrete event simulation for pharmaceutical supply chain analysis in India80. Dual resource scheduling in trauma care centre with time varying patient demand81. Real-Time Scheduling of Bed Resource Allocation to Improve Emergency Overcrowding82. Basic Medical Equipment and Human Resource Allocation Models in Philippine Barangay Health Centers using Integer Linear Programming

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Book SynopsisLogistics providers typically own large fleets of transportation vehicles such as rail cars or trucks. These fleets do not only determine to a large extent the service level the company can offer, but also make up a large part of total costs. Proper management of the fleet is therefore a crucial factor for these companies.In this book the author presents planning approaches that address the optimal management of vehicle fleets. Firstly, methods for determining the mixture of vehicle types and the optimal size of a fleet are developed. Secondly, approaches for supporting new service models such as customer segmentation are derived.Potential readership includes scholars and graduate students who are interested in the field of fleet planning and practitioners from logistics companies looking for new planning approaches.Table of Contents1 Introduction.- 2 Fleet Sizing and Structuring.- 3 Convexity of Loss Probabilities.- 4 Rationing and Fleet Sizing.- 5 Rationing under ADI.- 6 Conclusion.- Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch nimmt eine grundlegende Einführung in die Logistik und eine Einordnung der Logistik in den Wertschöpfungsprozess vor. Dabei wird auch der Frage nachgegangen, in welcher Beziehung Logistik(management) und Supply Chain Management stehen. Neben Begriffen und Strukturen in der Logistik werden auch Prozessaspekte behandelt. Ziel ist es, in kompakter Form das moderne Logistikverständnis, das über die reine physische Abwicklung von Gütertransporten, Umschlag und Lagerung hinausgeht, aufzuzeigen. Logistik wird dabei sowohl aus der Sicht einer Managementkonzeption als auch aus der Sicht der technischen Dimensionen behandelt. Jedes Kapitel enthält Lernziele sowie zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen zum Selbststudium und zur optimalen Prüfungsvorbereitung. Table of ContentsDefinition und Strukturierung des Gegenstands der Logistik.- Elemente des Logistikmanagements.- Systeme der Transport-, Umschlags-, Lagerlogistik.- Logistiknetzwerkplanung und Transportketten.- Elemente technischer Logistiksysteme.- Übungsaufgaben und Lösungen.

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Book SynopsisNeben Digitalisierung und Einkauf 4.0 hat vor allem die Agilität den Einkauf stark beschäftigt. Doch eine gezielte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema hat bisher gefehlt. Dieses Essential gibt einen Überblick über agile Methoden in den Bereichen Projektmanagement, Innovation sowie Führung und zeigt Anwendungsmöglichkeiten im Einkauf auf. Mit Blick auf Mitarbeiter, Bedarfsträger und Lieferanten werden außerdem ein Reifegrad- und ein Vorgehensmodell zur Umsetzung des „agilen Einkaufs“ vorgestellt.Stimmen zum Buch:„Dem Autor gelingt es ausgezeichnet, sich dem Thema „Agilität im Einkauf“ mit einem konkreten und klaren Handlungsrahmen leichtfüßig zu nähern“Christian Humbold, Senior Procurement Manager IT & Scrum Master„Das ‚Schweizer Taschenmesser‘ für die Einkaufsorganisation von morgen. Strukturiert, präzise und voller Möglichkeiten.“Jochen Messner, Experte für agile Transformation & New Work; Gründer „five4success"Table of ContentsAgile Methoden im Einkauf – ein Überblick.- Agiles Projektmanagement im Einkauf.- Einkauf und agile Innovation.- Einkaufsorganisation und Agilität.- Schlussbetrachtung Agiler Einkauf

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Book SynopsisThis Open-Access-Book analyzes the acceptance of sustainable freight transport and suggests a new framework for policy measures to decarbonize freight transport. Despite intense political endeavors, the environmental performance of the transport system has not improved in the previous years. It seems that the existing measures are not sufficient to motivate transport users to implement sustainable freight transport strategies. The case of three different strategies for sustainable freight transport is studied: horizontal collaboration in a Physical Internet network, multimodal freight transport and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as alternative truck fuel. Each of these three strategies falls within a different pillar of the avoid-shift-reduce framework. The determinants of acceptance and suggested policy measures in this study reflect transport users’ needs towards sustainable freight transport. This should support policy makers and the logistics industry to implement sustainable practices and achieve the ambitious emission targets by decarbonizing freight transport.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Conceptual background.- Research design.- Strategies for sustainable freight transport.- The acceptance of sustainable freight transport.- Policy measures to promote sustainable freight transport.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisEntscheidungen in Unternehmen haben Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft und die Umwelt. Unternehmen müssen solche Auswirkungen ernst nehmen und Nachhaltigkeitsthemen in der Organisation und den Geschäftstätigkeiten berücksichtigen sowie geeignete Maßnahmen treffen (Corporate Social Responsibility – CSR). Entsprechend geht dies mit Transformationen einher, die vielfältige Herausforderungen hinsichtlich Bewertung und Entscheidungsfindung mit sich bringen. Dieses Buch beschreibt einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz zur Businessmodell-Nachhaltigkeitsgestaltung mit dem Ziel einer Integration aller Nachhaltigkeitsthemen. Eingesetzt wird das MITO-Methoden-Tool, das sich streng an den Vorgaben der DIN ISO 26000, den dort genannten Kernthemen der Nachhaltigkeit, den Handlungsempfehlungen und auch weiterführenden Nachhaltigkeitsregelwerken orientiert.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Einleitung.

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Book SynopsisMit der in diesem Buch vorgestellten Methodik zur Zukunftsforschung in der Logistik werden Unternehmen in die Lage versetzt, selbstständig Logistikvisionen zu erarbeiten und diese im strategischen und operativen Bereich umzusetzen.Table of ContentsLogistik-Future-Stories.- Disruption – eine Strategie zur Überwindung eines Mythos.- Verbindung von Lean-Methoden und Agiler Philosophie zur Weiterentwicklung von Logistikprozessen.- Wie Kinder zu Erfindern werden und dabei Programmieren lernen.- Der digitale Zwilling in der Supply Chain – mehr als ein Software-Produkt.- Innovationen auf der letzten Meile.- Innovative Startups in der Logistikbranche.- Wie die künstliche Intelligenz die Welt der Logistik neu definiert.- Plattformen in Transport und Logistik.

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Book SynopsisDer letzte Schritt eines Paketzustellungsprozesses, die sogenannte letzte Meile, steht vor wachsenden Herausforderungen. Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Trends, wie die Urbanisierung und die zunehmende Bedeutung der ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit, erfordern eine Umgestaltung der letzten Meile. Darüber hinaus wachsen auch die Ansprüche der Kunden. Die Empfänger erwarten zunehmend individualisierte und personalisierte Zustelloptionen, weshalb neue Zustellkonzepte erforderlich sind. In diesem Zusammenhang kann der Einsatz innovativer Technologien aus dem Bereich der Logistik 4.0 und ihrer Kernelemente Konnektivität und Digitalisierung Chancen bieten, die Idee einer Last Mile 4.0 zu realisieren und die aktuellen Herausforderungen zu bewältigen.

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