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The aim of the book is to present the emerging environmental issues in organization and management of complex supply chains. The book includes set of solutions which show different stakeholders' viewpoints on sustainability. The scope of book takes into consideration how the emerging environmental regulation might be transformed into business practices. Therefore, the authors present the innovative approach to eco-friendly organization and coordination of logistics processes and supply chain configuration. A broad scope of practical solutions from different countries and industries is provided.

Business logistics -- Environmental aspects. --- Business logistics -- Management. --- Business logistics. --- Sustainable development. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Management --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Business & Economics --- Environmental Engineering --- Management Styles & Communication --- Business logistics --- Environmental aspects. --- Management. --- Supply chain management --- Environment. --- Production management. --- Environmental engineering. --- Biotechnology. --- Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. --- Sustainable Development. --- Operations Management. --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Manufacturing management --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Engineering --- Environmental health --- Environmental protection --- Pollution --- Sustainable engineering

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This book introduces the integrated management concept of "Sustainable Value Creation", which delivers sustainability ‘inside-out’ from the core business. It is based on the premise that sustainability can provide a platform for growth, if it is implemented in a company’s products, services and supply chains (combined also known as the 'Value Chain'). Managing the Value Chain from the outset with a sustainability mindset subsequently allows profitable economical, ecological and societal growth. It combines the need for increased sustainability and its implementation in the operations of a company. The book addresses the following issues: How do economic, environmental and societal factors impact the value-creation process of a company? What requirements and expectations need to be met to balance economic, ecologic and societal value creation? What are the building blocks and measures that can be utilized on the journey towards building a sustainable value chain? What benefits can be achieved through sustainable value chains? What are the practical examples of sustainable value chains in leading companies that can inspire others to follow? The book includes contributions from the following organisations and companies: Beiersdorf, SAP, Klenk und Hoursch, VAUDE, Infineon Technologies, Independent Capital Management, BASF, Nanogate, the Federal German Council for Sustainable Development, Henkel, Symrise, shared.value.chain, Siemens, Fairphone and Thin Air Factory.

Economics/Management Science. --- Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management. --- Sustainable Development. --- Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Economics. --- Sustainable development. --- Economie politique --- Développement durable --- Business logistics -- Management. --- Management. --- Social responsibility of business. --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Management Theory --- Business logistics --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Industries --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Social responsibility --- Business. --- Industrial management. --- Production management. --- Business ethics. --- Business and Management. --- Operations Management. --- Business Ethics. --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Social aspects --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Professional ethics --- Wealth --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Supply chain management --- Logistics --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Industrial organization

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Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better, and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes. As they now face globalisation, higher competitiveness, demanding customers, growing IT possibilities, compliancy rules, etc., business process maturity models (BPMMs) have been introduced to help organisations gradually assess and improve their business processes (e.g. CMMI or OMG-BPMM). In fact, there are now so many BPMMs to choose from that organisations risk selecting one that does not fit their needs, or one of substandard quality. This book presents a study that distinguishes process management from process orientation so as to arrive at a common understanding. It also includes a classification study to identify the capability areas and maturity types of 69 existing BPMMs, in order to strengthen the basis of available BPMMs. Lastly it presents a selection study to identify criteria for choosing one BPMM from the broad selection, which produced a free online selection tool, BPMM Smart-Selector.

Business logistics -- Management. --- Business logistics. --- Business. --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Commerce - General --- Business --- Reengineering (Management) --- Business logistics --- Management information systems. --- Data processing --- Management. --- History. --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Business process reengineering --- Re-engineering (Management) --- Operations research. --- Decision making. --- Information technology. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Economic sociology. --- Business and Management. --- IT in Business. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Continuous Optimization. --- Data processing. --- Management --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Communication systems --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Supply chain management --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Business—Data processing. --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Economic sociology --- Economics --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Decision making --- Social aspects

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This work encapsulates the essential developments in this field into a single resource, as well as to set an agenda for further development in the field. This brief focuses on the demand flexibility in supply chains with fragmented results distributed throughout the literature. These results have strong implications for managing real-world complex operations planning problems. This book exploits dimensions of demand flexibility in supply chains and characterizes the best fit between demand properties and operations capabilities and constraints. The origins and seminal works are traced in integrated demand and operations planning and an in-depth documentation is provided for the current state of the art. Systems with inherent costs and constraints that must respond to some set of demands at a minimum cost are examined.  Crucial unanswered questions are explored and the high-value research directions  are highlighted for both practice and for the development of new and interesting optimization models and algorithms.

Business logistics -- Management. --- Engineering economy. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Operations research. --- Business logistics --- Operations research --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Operations Research --- Management Styles & Communication --- Supply and demand. --- Business logistics. --- Supply chain management --- Demand and supply --- Industrial production --- Law of supply and demand --- Mathematics. --- Production management. --- Management science. --- Engineering economics. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Optimization. --- Operations Management. --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Statistical decision --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Math --- Science --- Logistics --- Economics --- Competition --- Exchange --- Overproduction --- Prices --- Value

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One of the most critical issues facing supply chain managers in today’s globalized and highly uncertain business environments is how to deal proactively with disruptions that might affect the complicated supply networks characterizing modern enterprises. Supply Chain Disruptions: Theory and Practice of Managing Risk presents a state-of the-art perspective on this particular issue. Supply Chain Disruptions: Theory and Practice of Managing Risk demonstrates that effective management of supply disruptions necessitates both strategic and tactical measures – the former involving optimal design of supply networks; the latter involving inventory, finance and demand management. It shows that managers ought to use all available levers at their disposal throughout the supply network – like sourcing and pricing strategies, providing financial subsidies, encouraging information sharing and incentive alignment between supply chain partners – in order to tackle supply disruptions. The editors combine up-to-date academic research with the latest operational risk management practices used in industry to demonstrate how theoreticians and practitioners can learn from each other. As well as providing a wealth of knowledge for students and professors who are interested in pursuing research or teaching courses in the rapidly growing area of supply chain risk management, Supply Chain Disruptions: Theory and Practice of Managing Risk also acts as a ready reference for practitioners who are interested in understanding the theoretical underpinnings of effective supply disruption management techniques.

Business logistics -- Management. --- Risk assessment. --- Risk management. --- Business logistics --- Risk management --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Management --- Chemical & Materials Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Business & Economics --- Materials Science --- Industrial & Management Engineering --- Management Styles & Communication --- Technology - General --- Business logistics. --- Supply chain management --- Engineering. --- Production management. --- Industrial engineering. --- Production engineering. --- Quality control. --- Reliability. --- Industrial safety. --- Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Operations Management. --- Insurance --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- System safety. --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Safety, System --- Safety of systems --- Systems safety --- Accidents --- Industrial safety --- Systems engineering --- Manufacturing management --- Prevention --- Industrial accidents --- Industries --- Job safety --- Occupational hazards, Prevention of --- Occupational health and safety --- Occupational safety and health --- Prevention of industrial accidents --- Prevention of occupational hazards --- Safety, Industrial --- Safety engineering --- Safety measures --- Safety of workers --- System safety --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- Factory management --- Industrial engineering --- Reliability (Engineering) --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Standardization --- Quality assurance --- Quality of products --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Mechanical engineering