Nowadays the supply chain management framework is improved continuously by new elements like quality or risk management. This affects the inter-organizational management system in a global perspective as well as the design of every single node in a supply chain.

This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Heike Flämig provides a valuable insight into:



latest findings in the area of global logistics

new concepts for product induced logistics strategies

quality and risk management for logistics and supply chains

the challenge of sustainability

performance and capacity management.

With this volume readers will learn how to optimize the management of existing networks in different fields of logistics.