Humanitarian Logistics

Humanitarian Logistics
Author: R. Tomasini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2009-02-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230233481

Imagine planning an event like the Olympics. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend. This is what humanitarian logisticians are up against. Oversights result in serious consequences for the victims of disasters. So they have to get it right, fast.

Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems: Novel Approaches

Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems: Novel Approaches
Author: Wang, John
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2009-10-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 160566975X

The intersection of supply chain management and e-business information systems is a significant topic for the modern business world as understanding which technologies will most effectively enable innovative practices is a key management competency. Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems: Novel Approaches presents exemplary research on the interface between these two fields, useful to academicians and practitioners keen on streamlining concurrently both information and materials flows across the supply chains. This advanced publication provides recent examinations as well as future directions of development.

Supply Chain and Logistics in National, International and Governmental Environment

Supply Chain and Logistics in National, International and Governmental Environment
Author: Reza Zanjirani Farahani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 379082156X

Logisticsisan integralpartofoureverydaylife.Todayit in?uencesmorethanevera largenumberofhumanandeconomicactivities. Inthisbook,authorstryto illustrate some advanced logistics and supply chain management topics, recently mentioned by academic and industrial personnel. This book has been organized in 12 chapters such that the reader can study each chapter not only independently as shown in Fig. 1; but also as part of a whole. If someone wants to study the book more deeply, the suggested approach for this study is shown in Fig. 2. So the readers of this book may be divided into at least two groups: (1) students in Master’s courses or higher, who can use this book in their courses as a whole, and (2) experts who want to learn more about a new topic in logistics and supply chain management; this group may want to read a chapter about a special topic that is found in this book. In the context of global competition, the more latent topics in logistics supply chain management are fast growing. This book falls within this perspective and presents 12 chapters that well illustrate the variety and complexity of these topics. This book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 introduces logistics and supply chain management and contains some primal de?nitions about these two concepts; some obstacles, prerequisites and infrastructures of modernized logistics and supply chain management and global supply chain management are illustrated.