Global Intermediation and Logistics Service Providers
Global Intermediation and Logistics Service Providers

Author: Saglietto, Laurence

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1522521348

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As modern organizations become more globalized and diverse, they require additional assistance to maintain effective workflows. With the support of intermediary partners, businesses can enhance their various management processes. Global Intermediation and Logistics Service Providers is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on outsourcing strategies in contemporary business environments and examines the role of intermediaries in the dynamics of decision-making and process management. Highlighting pivotal discussions across a myriad of relevant topics, such as open innovation, competitive advantage, and social capital, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, researchers, and students interested in the impact of service providers within industrial organizations.

Global Supply Chains and Multimodal Logistics: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Global Supply Chains and Multimodal Logistics: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Sinha, Deepankar

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-03-22

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1522582991

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International trade has made logistics a strategic consideration for firms. The decision-making framework is substantially different in the case of international logistics, as this involves cross-border movement of goods and multimodal transportation. An integrated framework based on customer's requirement, their country regulations, risk, and cost specific to goods and countries needs to be developed. Global Supply Chains and Multimodal Logistics: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that provides concepts of global logistics and its risk factors and provides an integrated framework for effective decision making. Highlighting such topics as enterprise resource planning, forecasting models, and logistics systems, this publication is ideally designed for managers, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students in fields including but not limited to supply chain management, international business, and logistics.

Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management in Home Healthcare: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management in Home Healthcare: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Euchi, Jalel

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-09-27

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1799802701

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With advancing technology and the digitization of the modern era, businesses are required to adopt the latest innovations computer science and information technology have to offer. The field of home healthcare must utilize the finest available operations management systems in order to remain relevant in a globalized world while also providing the best treatment possible to its patients. Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management in Home Healthcare: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that provides theoretical and empirical research on logistics management and transportation and scheduling routing and their applications in home healthcare and logistics. While highlighting topics such as hybrid energy, scheduling optimization, and forecasting techniques, this book is ideally designed for outpatient doctors and nurses, transportation professionals, logisticians, home healthcare managers, computer scientists, logistic engineers, health practitioners, academicians, researchers, and students.

Legal, Safety, and Environmental Challenges for Event Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Legal, Safety, and Environmental Challenges for Event Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Nadda, Vipin

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-04-17

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1799832325

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Every corporate or special event requires a governing entity to provide proper handling for any kind of situation. A proper understanding of various laws and legislation may not only help with identifying possible challenges, but it may also assist in mitigating situations when they do occur. Legal, Safety, and Environmental Challenges for Event Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that provides an in-depth understanding of various dimensions of events management practice, legal issues, and risk management, which can include environmental legislation and impacts, health and safety frameworks, consumer laws, licensing, contracts, and legal technologies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as crowd management, workplace hazards, and emergency preparedness, this book is ideally designed for event planners, event organizers/coordinators, security staff, managers, marketers, researchers, academicians, students, and industry professionals seeking current research on events, tourism, hospitality, and leisure management.

Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author: Management Association, Information Resources

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 2148

ISBN-13: 1799809463

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Business practices are constantly evolving in order to meet growing customer demands. Evaluating the role of logistics and supply chain management skills or applications is necessary for the success of any organization or business. As market competition becomes more aggressive, it is crucial to evaluate ways in which a business can maintain a strategic edge over competitors. Supply Chain and Logistics Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that centers on the effective management of risk factors and the implementation of the latest supply management strategies. It also explores the field of digital supply chain optimization and business transformation. Highlighting a range of topics such as inventory management, competitive advantage, and transport management, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for business managers, supply chain managers, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and upper-level students in the field of supply chain management, operations management, logistics, and operations research.

Analyzing the Impacts of Industry 4.0 in Modern Business Environments
Analyzing the Impacts of Industry 4.0 in Modern Business Environments

Author: Brunet-Thornton, Richard

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1522534695

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In order to improve competitiveness and performance, corporations must embrace advancements in digitalization. Successful implementation of knowledge management is a huge factor in corporate success. Analyzing the Impacts of Industry 4.0 in Modern Business Environments is a critical scholarly publication that explores digital transformation in business environments and the requirement for not only a substantial management change plan but equally the two essential components of knowledge management: knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer. Featuring a broad range of topics such as strategic planning, knowledge transfer, and cybersecurity risk management, this book is geared toward researchers, academicians, and students seeking current and relevant research on organizational knowledge intensity and monitoring of knowledge management development.

Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains
Freight Forwarder's Intermediary Role in Multimodal Transport Chains

Author: Hans-Joachim Schramm

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 3790827754

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In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations. In such contexts, the freight forwarder is always considered "The Architect of Transport", but this intermediary role seems to be largely neglected in research to date. Therefore, relevant concepts from economic theory and economic sociology are employed to produce both an intermediary and a network perspective of freight forwarding in order to provide a better understanding of this kind of transportation business. Furthermore, its intermediary role in such inherent network structures is explored by mapping relationship patterns in a stylized model framework applied to a questionnaire-based sample collected among freight forwarders engaged in such multimodal transport chains in Germany (especially from Hamburg, Bremen and Bremerhaven) as well as in Austria in 2003.

Supply Chain Management Strategies and Risk Assessment in Retail Environments
Supply Chain Management Strategies and Risk Assessment in Retail Environments

Author: Kumar, Akhilesh

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1522530576

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The proper understanding and managing of project risks and uncertainties is crucial to any organization. It is paramount that all phases of project development and execution are monitored to avoid poor project results from meager economics, overspending, and reputation. Supply Chain Management Strategies and Risk Assessment in Retail Environments is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on effectively managing risk factors and implementing the latest supply management strategies in retail environments. Featuring coverage on relevant topics such as omni-channel retail, green supply chain, and customer loyalty, this book is geared toward academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the challenges and opportunities available in the realm of retail and the flow of materials, information, and finances between companies and consumers.

Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics
Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics

Author: Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1522581618

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City logistics is one of the most popular fields of transportation sciences, dealing with sustainably supplying cities and at the same time reducing congestion and pollution related to goods transport in urban areas. Recently, humanitarian, emergency, and crises logistics has been a subject of increasing interest, often seen from an international viewpoint. However, some of the recent natural crises have shown the importance of resilience and reliability of the current urban logistics systems. The Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics is a critical scholarly publication that addresses urban logistics and resilience, sustainable urban logistics, humanitarian logistics in urban areas both for crisis or long-term, and planning for resilient urban development. Featuring a broad range of topics that discuss the new and future trends in urban logistics and resilient cities, this publication is ideal for public planners; urban planners; company managers in logistics and transport; consulting agencies; regional, national, and international institutions and organizations; researchers; academicians; and students.

Improving E-Commerce Web Applications Through Business Intelligence Techniques
Improving E-Commerce Web Applications Through Business Intelligence Techniques

Author: Sreedhar, G.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1522536477

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As the Internet becomes increasingly interconnected with modern society, the transition to online business has developed into a prevalent form of commerce. While there exist various advantages and disadvantages to online business, it plays a major role in contemporary business methods. Improving E-Commerce Web Applications Through Business Intelligence Techniques provides emerging research on the core areas of e-commerce web applications. While highlighting the use of data mining, search engine optimization, and online marketing to advance online business, readers will learn how the role of online commerce is becoming more prevalent in modern business. This book is an important resource for vendors, website developers, online customers, and scholars seeking current research on the development and use of e-commerce.