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Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information Value Eff…
This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis. In addition to theoretical considerations, numerous illustrative examples are included. Hence, the book can be used as a teaching text as well. Only a modest mathematical background is needed to understand the main principles. The on…
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- 978-1-4899-7528-7
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- 57 illustrations in colour
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Green Logistics and Transportation: A Sustainable Supply Chain Perspective
This book identifies and furthers the state of the art in green logistics and transportation with a supply chain focus. It includes discussions on concerns and linkages across policy, corporate strategy and operations and inter-organizational relationships and practices. Separate sections are assigned to discuss issues related to greening of logistics and transportation functions, including gre…
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- 978-3-319-17180-7
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- VIII, 197
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- 658 GRE
Global Supply Chain Security
This volume presents new theoretical insights, practical strategies, and policy initiatives in the rapidly evolving field of global supply chain security. As businesses, governments, and society at large have become increasingly dependent on a global network to provide goods and services, protecting global supply chains has become an issue of vital importance for industries, nations, and region…
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- 978-1-4939-2177-5
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- IX, 202
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- 658 GLO
Transport of Water versus Transport over Water
This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand. The main contribution of the book as a whole is to present novel perspectives ultimately leading to the management of an envi…
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- 978-3-319-16133-4
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- XVI, 478
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- Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
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Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World
Globalization of the economy, fragmentation of the production process, increasing externalization of TNCs activities through their global value chains and the widespread adoption of Just-in-Time have increased the flows of raw materials, intermediate goods and finished products, with a direct effect on the transport and logistics industry. This industry, indeed, plays a key role in connecting t…
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- 978-3-319-00011-4
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- XVI, 92
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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Evaluation Method of Energy Consumption in Logistic Warehouse Systems
This book focuses on guidelines for reducing the energy consumption in warehousing processes. It presents a model of formal assessment for energy consumption in the context of storage-system logistics, as well as a computational model consisting of three sub-models: energy consumption models for forklifts and stacker cranes, respectively, and an energy intensity model for roller conveyors. The …
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- 978-3-319-22044-4
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- 19 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
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Systemic Flexibility and Business Agility
Flexibility and agility in business are emerging as key dimensions of business excellence that encompass the requirements of both choice and speed. The two concepts, flexibility and agility, have been used in multiple ways and often interchangeably, both in literature and in practice. The growing need for flexibility/agility in business can be seen from reactive as well as proactive perspective…
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- 978-81-322-2151-7
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- XVII, 416
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- Flexible Systems Management
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Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management
This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management. It contains three parts, organized under the headings of “Reviews and Discussions,” “Analytical Research,” and “Empirical Research,” featuring peer-reviewed papers contributed by researchers …
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- 978-3-319-12703-3
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- X, 201
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- Springer Series in Supply Chain Management
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Inventory Control
This third edition, which has been fully updated and now includes improved and extended explanations, is suitable as a core textbook as well as a source book for industry practitioners. It covers traditional approaches for forecasting, lot sizing, determination of safety stocks and reorder points, KANBAN policies and Material Requirements Planning. It also includes recent advances in inventory …
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- 978-3-319-15729-0
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Toward Sustainable Operations of Supply Chain and Logistics Systems
This book addresses critical issues in today’s logistics operations and supply chain management, with a special focus on sustainability. In dedicated chapters the authors address aspects concerning multimode logistics operations, reverse network configuration, forward and reverse supply chain integration, improvement of the production operations and management of the recovery activities, as w…
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- 978-3-319-19005-1
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- XI, 550
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- EcoProduction
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