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Logistics Challenges and Opportunities in Africa in the 2020s
Africa is potentially one of the biggest growth regions in the global environment, yet issues such as poverty, poor infrastructure, political...
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How to Design Human–Machine Interaction in Next-Generation Supply Chain Planning
Decision support systems for supply chain planning have been supporting planners over decades to improve their decision-making in many different...
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The Future of Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Changing Skill Sets and Smart Career Choices
Despite its tumultuous, volatile start and subsequent disruptions and rising costs in many supply chains, the 2020 decade has all the ingredients to...
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Future of Procurement
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown how fragile modern supply chains are in a globalized world and underscored the importance of effective,...
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Risk-Driven Supply Chain Design: Options and Trade-Offs in Complex Environments
This chapter discusses the relevance of different supply chain paradigms and depicts their differences and limitations in complex environments....
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Competence Development, Learning and Change in Supply Chain Management
New information technologies change the landscape of competition and the organisations that seek to apply them. Whereas in principle all companies...
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Recent Advances of Service Supply Chain Management: Roles of Logistics
Service supply chain management (SSCM) is critical to global business operations. In particular, achieving channel coordination for service supply...
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The Future of 3PLs
It is difficult to predict what will happen tomorrow, let alone predict the future of 3PLs in the coming decade. After all, in early 2020, who could...
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Transportprobleme
Der Bereich des Transports gehört zu den wichtigsten Bereichen der Logistik. In diesem Kapitel werden einige Hauptvarianten von Transportproblemen...
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Scheduling
In diesem Kapitel diskutieren wir Scheduling-Probleme und wie Methoden der Computational Intelligence auf sie angewendet werden können. Wir beginnen...
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Bestandsplanung und Losgrößenbestimmung
In diesem Kapitel werden Probleme der Bestandsplanung und damit zusammenhängende Planungsaufgaben wie die Bestimmung von Losgrößen für die...
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Beyond the Boundaries of Project Management
In this chapter I describe in broad terms the business functions that are contiguous to project management and their operating principles: it is very...
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Business Environment and Perspective: No Project is an Island
This short chapter is about managing the impact that any project gets from the external environment. This aspect is dramatically undervalued by most...
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Intermodal Transport System
Intermodal transport combines the accessibility of inland transport modes with the long-haul capabilities of ocean ship**. Intermodal transport can...
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Bulk Ship** Market
There are four separate but interrelated markets in ship**, namely the freight market, which trades sea transport, the second-hand market, which...
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Liner Ship** Network
A liner ship** network is a form of collaboration in the liner ship** industry where actors such as intermodal service providers, container...
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Container Transport Chain
Container transport involves door-to-door services encompassing ocean-going and land-based transport services. Containers move along a network of...
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New Technology Development in the Ship** Industry
This chapter aims to review new technologies under development in the ship** industry. It first presents the features and functions of emergent...
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Business Strategy in Ship**
Strategy is important in ship** because it facilitates the identification of business opportunities, gives an objective view to solve business...
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Port Development
This chapter begins with a discussion of the operating environment of container ship** by introducing the concept of the 4C forces, i.e.,...