Contemporary issues in supply chain management and logistics /
By: Pagano, Anthony M
Title By: Gyimah, Mellissa | Field, Joy M [Series Editor]
Series: Supply and operations management collection.Publisher: New York, NY : Business Expert Press, LLC,, 2017.Description: viii, 162 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781631573613Subject(s): Business logistics | Business schools | Contemporary issues | Cutting-edge | Business logistics. business schools contemporary issues cutting-edge education engineering graduate students logistics marketing professional supply chain management | Education | EngineeringDDC classification: 658.7 PA CO| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 658.7 PA CO (Browse shelf) | Available | T0057857 |
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| 658.7 OB NE Negotiation for procurement professionals / | 658.7 OS SU Supply chain disruption : | 658.7 OU TS Outsourcing management for supply chain operations and logistics services / | 658.7 PA CO Contemporary issues in supply chain management and logistics / | 658.7 PE SU Supply chain integration / | 658.7 PH PR A practical introduction to supply chain | 658.7 PL SU Supply chain optimization through segmentation and analytics / |
1. Introduction, about this book --
2. Technology trends in logistics and supply chain management / Matthew Liotine, Anthony M. Pagano, and Siddhartha Varma Gadiraju --
3. The science of inventory optimization: profit optimally managing change and variability in the supply chain / William E. Stillman --
4. The demand prediction of location-dependent services / Fazle Karim and Houshang Darabi --
5. Supply chain education: are university courses providing the background that companies want for new employees? / Mellissa Gyimah --
6. An agent-based supply chain and freight transportation model: case study for Chicago metropolitan area / Zahra Pourabdollahi, Behzad Karimi, Kouros Mohammadian, and Kazuya Kawamura --
7. Kaplan-Meier estimators for single product demand using inventory level time-series / J. Christopher Westland --
8. Public-private partnerships (PPP) in transportation: an analysis of alternatives / Anthony M. Pagano --
About the authors --
Index.
This book is a collection of chapters on issues we face today in the world of Supply Chain Management. While there are a number of college text books related to specific areas within logistics and supply chain issues, there are very few general supply chain management "trends" books. Thus, this book consists of seven dynamic, current and informative chapters that cover a variety of cutting-edge supply chain topics.