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  title info:
    title: Contemporary Operations and Logistics
    sub title: Achieving Excellence in Turbulent Times
  name:
    name part: Wells, Peter.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXIV, 389 p. 36 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This edited collection collates the most up-to-date and important research within the area of operations and logistics management. Boasting the combined expertise of one of the largest logistics and operations management academic teams in Europe, it provides both depth and diversity in a balanced portfolio. The first two sections are concerned with key contemporary issues in the subject area, providing a current and up-to-date overview of the field. Section three presents a selection of important cross-cutting themes that impinge upon and inform teaching, research and practice, while the final section includes a celebration of research highlights and showcases cutting-edge applications from leaders in the field. Invaluable to students, researchers and academics alike, this book is compulsory reading for those active within operations and logistics research.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Project Management for Effective Operations Management -- Chapter 3: The Foundations of Sustainability and the Implications for Transport Modes -- Chapter 4: Business Model Innovation at the Interface between Global Production Systems and Local Demand -- Chapter 5: 3D Printing for Supply Chain Service Companies -- Chapter 6: Zero-Carbon Logistics -- Chapter 7: Vehicle Routing Problem: Past and Future -- Chapter 8: Dynamical Modelling in Operations Management -- Chapter 9: Systems Thinking, Engineering and Dynamics in Modern Supply Chain Management -- Chapter 10: Green Supply Chain Management in Asian Emerging Economies: A State-of-the-Art Review -- Chapter 11: Effective Supply Chain Collaboration -- Chapter 12: Strategic Choices in Creating Resilient Supply Networks -- Chapter 13: Horizontal Logistics Collaboration - An International Retail Supply Chain Case Study -- Chapter 14: Shipping Economics: Status and Future Prospects -- Chapter 15: A Contextual History of Port Research at Cardiff University -- Chapter 16: Retail Clothing Returns: A Review of Key Issues -- Chapter 17: Lean Readiness Index: Assessing Organisation Preparedness to Implement Lean -- Chapter 18: Humanitarian Aid Supply Chain Management -- Chapter 19: Developing a Profitable Online Grocery Logistics Business: Exploring Innovations in Ordering, Fulfilment and Distribution at Ocado.
  note: edited by Peter Wells.
  subject:
    topic: Business logistics
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial management-Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Logistics
  subject:
    topic: Supply Chain Management
  subject:
    topic: Innovation/Technology Management
  subject:
    topic: Sustainability Management
  classification: HD38.5
  classification: 658.5
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030144937
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14493-7
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    record creation date: 190423
    record change date: 20191023161606.0
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