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Global Supply Chain Security and Management: Appraising Programs, Preventing Crimes examines the relationship between securing a supply chain and promoting more efficient worldwide trade. Historically, the primary goal of supply chain security was guarding against theft and damage. Today, supply chains are also on the frontlines in the fight against terrorism. This book showcases industry leaders and their best practices, also exploring how the government is both a policing organization and a supply chain partner. In addition, it covers the critical roles that various technologies play, focusing on how Big Data is collected and turned into knowledge. By using the tools provided, readers will gain a stronger understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by any organization that imports or exports products. Outlines the latest technologies being used to secure infrastructures Leverages game theory to express the strategic interactions of government and business Covers the latest U.S. regulations and provides analytical tools to help make sense of these regulations Incorporates the latest theories and techniques of industrial organization, economics, and security
International trade. --- Crime prevention. --- Business logistics --- Security measures. --- Management. --- Supply chain management --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Crime --- Crime prevention --- Prevention of crime --- Public safety --- External trade --- Foreign commerce --- Foreign trade --- Global commerce --- Global trade --- Trade, International --- World trade --- Commerce --- International economic relations --- Non-traded goods --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Business logistics.
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"Transportation Operations Management provides the analytical tools and industry-wide context necessary to understand and address the critical realworld problems in transportation operations and planning that shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers face every day. The book examines operational problems from all transportation modes--air, motor carrier, water vessel, pipeline, and rail to show how these interact in the real world of todays carriers and shippers. The book also outlines and analyzes key issues such as designing efficient domestic and international transportation networks; choosing optimal locations within market spaces; designing infrastructure to manage network congestion; leveraging intermodalism for operational flexibility; leveraging techniques for costing, pricing, and revenue management; using tracking technology for decision-making; maintaining regulatory compliance in operations; and managing environmental stewardship. Paying particular attention to the influence of the logistical constraints of time, physical space, and location, the book reveals the key role of transportation in strategic and tactical decision-making. The book uses mathematical techniques such as the theory of capacity management, the microeconomics of costing and pricing, risk management, linear optimization, productivity measurement, queueing theory, and complex scheduling. The book also uses real-world problems with their actual marketplace constraints in technology, geography, and government regulations to provide an applied context to the techniques examined."--
Transportation. --- Public transportation --- Transport --- Transportation --- Transportation, Primitive --- Transportation companies --- Transportation industry --- Locomotion --- Commerce --- Communication and traffic --- Storage and moving trade --- Economic aspects --- Business logistics.
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Global Supply Chain Security and Management: Appraising Programs, Preventing Crimes examines the relationship between securing a supply chain and promoting more efficient worldwide trade. Historically, the primary goal of supply chain security was guarding against theft and damage. Today, supply chains are also on the frontlines in the fight against terrorism. This book showcases industry leaders and their best practices, also exploring how the government is both a policing organization and a supply chain partner. In addition, it covers the critical roles that various technologies play, focusing on how Big Data is collected and turned into knowledge. By using the tools provided, readers will gain a stronger understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by any organization that imports or exports products. Outlines the latest technologies being used to secure infrastructures Leverages game theory to express the strategic interactions of government and business Covers the latest U.S. regulations and provides analytical tools to help make sense of these regulations Incorporates the latest theories and techniques of industrial organization, economics, and security
International trade. --- Crime prevention. --- Business logistics --- Business logistics. --- Security measures.
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Blockchains (Databases) --- Cryptocurrencies. --- Business logistics --- Teams in the workplace. --- Trust. --- Technological innovations.
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Price regulation. --- Business logistics. --- Inflation (Finance) --- Anti-inflationary policies. --- Banks and banking, Central --- Banks and banking. --- Consumer price indexes. --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Inflation (Finance) --- Wage-price policy. --- Wages --- Economic aspects. --- Cost-of-living adjustments. --- United States --- Economic conditions
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Business logistics. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Business logistics --- Data processing.
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Business logistics. --- Quality assurance. --- Supply and demand. --- Customer services.
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Business logistics. --- International trade. --- Exports. --- Imports.
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