Supply Chain Optimization, Management and Integration: Emerging Applications

Our rapidly changing world has forced business practitioners, in corporation with academic researchers, to respond quickly and develop effective solution methodologies and techniques to handle new challenges in supply chain systems.

Supply Chain Optimization, Management and Integration: Emerging Applications presents readers with a rich collection of ideas from researchers who are bridging the gap between the latest in information technology and supply chain management. This book includes theoretical, analytical, and empirical research, comprehensive reviews of relevant research, and case studies of effective applications in the field of SCM. The use of new technologies, methods, and techniques are emphasized by those who have worked with supply chain management across the world for those in the field of information systems.

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
• Creative decision making and problem solving
• Customer value and customer relationship management
• Decision-Making Systems
• Enterprise Information Systems
• Geographic Information Systems
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems
• Logistics network configuration
• Optimization and simulation
• Reasoning and decision making under uncertainty
• Risk Management
• Supplier and customer relationship management