What are the biggest challenges facing those managing supply chains? Qualitative Modeling of Offshore Outsourcing Risks in Supply Chain Management and Logistics is intended to benefit the stakeholders in client organizations by raising their understanding and awareness about the most dominant risks. This will equip supply chain managers to give more emphasis to mitigating these risks. It further showcases the development and validation of a conceptual framework that depicts the relationship among key offshore outsourcing risks. The text explores modelling various risks which disrupt the automotive supply chain and cybersecurity breaches in digital supply chains. This book: Covers structural modelling of key offshore outsourcing risks for understanding their driving and dependence power Presents a conceptual framework and hierarchical structural model for perfect order fulfilment in both upstream and downstream supply chains Explores the challenges in handling operational risks associated with poor delivery performance or service quality Models dimensions which affect vendor selection in offshore outsourcing environment Investigates cultural influences on the management of geographically distributed operations in offshore outsourcing Addresses the workforce-related offshore outsourcing risk such as loss of key professionals Discusses the risk associated with selection of location, viz. distribution centres/warehouses in supply chain and logistics Models dimensions related to cybersecurity breaches in digital supply chains because of IT offshoring It is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields of manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, supply chain management and production engineering.

"This book will benefit the stakeholders in client organizations by raising understanding and awareness about the most dominant offshore outsourcing risks, so they may give more emphasis to mitigating those risks. It further showcases the development and validation of a conceptual framework that depicts the relationship among key offshore outsourcing risks. The text explores modelling various risks which disrupt the automotive supply chain and cyber security breaches in digital supply chains. This book: Covers a chapter discussing structural modelling of key offshore outsourcing risks for understanding their driving and dependence power. Presents conceptual framework and hierarchical structural model for perfect order fulfilment in both upstream and downstream supply chains. Explores the challenges in handling operational risks associated with poor delivery performance or service quality. Models dimensions which effect vendor selection in offshore outsourcing environment Investigates cultural influence on the management of geographically distributed operations in offshore outsourcing. Addresses the workforce-related offshore outsourcing risk such as loss of key professionals. Discusses the risk associated with selection of location viz. distribution centres / warehouses in supply chain and logistics. Models dimensions related to cyber security breaches in digital supply chains because of IT offshoring. It is primarily written for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in the fields such as manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, supply chain management, and production engineering"--

Stresses quantitative models and methods used in supply chain management Highlights global supplier selection and vendor management techniques Discusses the use of multiple criteria decision-making models used in supply chain management Provides a new chapter on health and humanitarian supply chains, including disaster management and logistics modeling Offers exercises at the end of every chapter and a solutions manual and PowerPoint slides for qualified textbook adoptions

Since 2007, the biennial International Conferences on Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC) offers researchers and practitioners from logistics, operations research, production, industrial and electrical engineering as well as from computer science an opportunity to meet and to discuss the latest developments in this particular research domain. From February 12th to 14th 2020 for the seventh time, LDIC 2020 is held in Bremen, Germany. Similar to its six predecessors, the Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics) organizes this conference. The spectrum of topics reaches from the dynamic modeling, planning and control of processes over supply chain management and maritime logistics to innovative technologies and robotic applications for cyber-physical production and logistics systems. LDIC 2020 provides a forum for the discussion of advances in that matter. The conference program consists of three invited keynote speeches and 51 papers selected by a severe double-blind reviewing process. Within these proceedings all the papers are published. By this, the proceedings give an interdisciplinary outline on the state of the art of dynamics in logistics as well as identify challenges and solutions for logistics today and tomorrow.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management has been a vital part of every economy and every business entity. Both sciences have become prestigious research fields focusing on best practices, concepts, and methods. Outsourcing Management for Supply Chain Operations and Logistics Services is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics services, the Third Party Logistics (3PL’s), as well as their clients, presenting and promoting the lessons learned by their cooperation. Specifically, this publication presents studies which are relevant to practitioners, researchers, students, and clients of the application of the Outsourcing practice on the Logistics and Supply Chain Management services giving emphasis to 3PL’s.

As there is a vast amount of information to consider when offering quality services, organizations have developed techniques for identifying risk factors to be taken into consideration when constructing effective business strategies. Developing Business Strategies and Identifying Risk Factors in Modern Organizations presents new methodologies currently being utilized to formulate and solve strategic issues in order to escape the jeopardy of possible business risks. By highlighting a multitude of sciences and their influences on modern organizations; this book is an essential reference for decision makers and researchers in business, industry, government, and academia.

Integrating theory and practices of supply chain management, this book incorporates more than 15 years of supply chain and operations management research and industry consulting experience to both government and industry firms.The coverage focuses on how to build a competitive supply chain using viable management strategies, operational models, decision-making techniques, and information technology. It includes a core presentation on supply chain management and new initiatives such as e-commerce, collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR), data mining, knowledge management, and business intelligence.

A close look at the main developments in IT, business processes and offshore outsourcing. This book studies these topics in both theory and practice, exploring the rising prominence of outsourcing with a multi-dimensional, contextual perspective.

All organizations outsource. They differ only in the scope and extent of what they procure as goods and services from outside entities. These choices drive an organization's financial performance and long-term competitive viability, and establish the tenor of day-to-day operations. Outsourcing can solve many problems, but is also fraught with hidden costs and risks. This monograph examines outsourcing from a lifecycle perspective. This means tracing the full arc from the germination of the idea to outsource, to the assessment of options, to the installation of control mechanisms, to grappling with conflicts that inevitably arise over time, all the way to the sunset of the chosen strategy. The analysis is highly attentive to the details of operational execution, especially regarding how human resources participate in these decision processes and are impacted by the choices made.

This book offers a broad perspective on issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business processes in a national and global context, examining the client's and the vendor's involvement in sourcing relationships by putting the emphasis on the capabilities that each side should develop as a result of their interactions with each other.