Supply Chain Analysis: A Handbook on the Interaction of Information, System and Optimization

This is a gap-bridging handbook that analyzes interaction issues from both the research and practitioner sides. The result is a volume that examines and provides practical solutions on interaction issues while being firmly grounded in research principles. Some of the topical areas the Handbook examines are:

• The issue of supply chain design, from the perspective of foreign cosmetic companies in China;

• The issue of supply chain coordination among the grocery manufacturers. Most notably, the opportunity for strategic, multi-lateral collaboration through a shared distribution network;

• The impact of online secondary markets on the operational issues of a supply chain;

• The critical importance of risk and disruption in supply chain;

• and the huge issue of integrating demand and supply, hence the need to synchronize the supply chain with the demand chain.