Global logistics management

Nowadays the supply chain management framework is improved continuously by new elements like quality or risk management. This affects the inter-organizational management system in a global perspective as well as the design of every single node in a supply chain. This volume, edited by Wolfgang Kersten, Thorsten Blecker and Heike Flämig provides a valuable insight into: - latest findings in the area of global logistics - new concepts for product induced logistics strategies - quality and risk management for logistics and supply chains - the challenge of sustainability - performance and capacity management. With this volume readers will learn how to optimize the management of existing networks in different fields of logistics.