Bøger af Herbert Kotzab

As globalization and internationalization efforts intensify, companies are faced with even greater challenges to manage the supply chain of their products and services, including political, environmental, economic, social, and technological uncertainties. Having knowledge and understanding of Supply Chain Management (SCM) can aid companies to increase competitiveness within their global supply chain network. This book offers a wide range of theories and constructs that are at the core of SCM, such as inter-organizational relationships, information systems, distribution, production, innovation, procurement, sustainability, service, measurement systems, strategy, planning, and more. There are illustrative cases to portray how companies deal with particular supply chain management issues.

This survey of modern logistics, updated in a second edition, includes proven strategies and tools for solving numerous logistical problems, with algorithms and formulae for the computer-based planning of logistic systems as well as their dynamic scheduling.

The world today faces global competition. The supply chain is a vital part of the globalization process. This new edition has been fully updated with recent changes in concepts, technology and practice. Integration and collaboration are keywords in future competition. Firms must be agile and lean at the same time. The book gives an insightful overview of the conceptual foundations of the global supply chain, as well as current examples of best practice of managing supply chains in a global context.

This textbook represents the next generation in retail management! These pages expand upon the basic assumption that economic effectiveness and quality in operations should and must be viewed as the way for retail businesses to develop overall competitive advantage. The book presents a cutting-edge SCM framework and integrates it with basic principles of operations, management and marketing. Out of this integration of standard marketing principles and innovative relationship marketing thinking comes new marketing strategic typologies and paradigms that promote the understanding of relationship dynamics and equips the reader with tools for identifying and implementing these strategies. The book is written for two purposes - one is to be used in teaching modern retail management courses - and, two to be used by practitioners when considering how to develop the performance of their organizations further.