Intelligent Systems Reference Library Techniques Tools and Methodologies Applied to Global Supply Chain Ecosystems Book 166 (Paperback)

This book presents the latest developments concerning techniques tools and methodologies in supply chain ecosystems. It gathers contributions from a variety of experts who analyze a range of case studies and industrial sectors such as manufacturing energy agricultural healthcare humanitarian logistics and urban goods distribution to name but a few. The book is chiefly intended to meet the needs of two sectors: firstly the academic sector so as to familiarize students professors and researchers with the tools that are now being used to optimize supply chains; and secondly the industrial and managerial sector so that supply chain management practitioners can benefit from methods and tools that are yielding valuable results in other contexts.