Technological Solutions for Modern Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Technological Solutions for Modern Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 402

ISBN13: 9781466627734|ISBN10: 1466627743|EISBN13: 9781466627741

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2773-4

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Technological Solutions for Modern Logistics and Supply Chain Management highlights theories and technological growth in applied research as well as advances in logistics, supply chains, and industry experiences. Aiming to enhance the expansions made towards an efficient and sustainable economy, this book is essential for providing researchers, practitioners and academicians with insight into a wide range of topics.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Enabling Smarter SCM

Chapter 1

An Improved Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocol (pages 1-9)

Xiaowen Zhang, Zhanyang Zhang, Xinzhou Wei

This study extends the vulnerability analysis of a RFID authentication protocol and offers solutions to security weaknesses through enhanced measures. Vajda and Buttyan (VB) proposed a lightweight RFID authentication protocol, called...

Chapter 2

Research of Supply Quality Control and Optimization Under Multi-Period Dynamic Game (pages 10-18)

Jun Hu, Yulian Fei, Ertian Hua

To control quality in supply chain, this paper presents multi-period, dynamic game models in principal-agent theory, which are opposite to static, single period game models. The research comes from industrial practice and the...

Chapter 3

Utilizing SMS/3G Networks for Better and Reliable Communications between Yard Cranes and Server (pages 19-31)

C. D. Cheng, C. C. Ko, W. J. Huang

In a normal port operation, yard cranes are used to move containers from one location to another for import, export or relocation purposes. In order to locate the positions of containers, a database is set up in the office server to...

Chapter 4

Towards a Unified Definition of Supply Chain Management: The Four Fundamentals (pages 32-50)

Edward Sweeney

A wide range of definitions of supply chain management (SCM) have been developed over the last three decades. The philosophy of SCM is based firmly on a recognition that it is only by working in a more integrated manner that...

Chapter 5

Process Analysis of Knowledge Production (pages 51-69)

Raafat George Saadé, Ali Ahmed

This paper presents an optimized supply chain for ‘knowledge products’. Based on the traditional logistics model for academic knowledge, knowledge creation and delivery are discussed. A new framework of an optimized supply chain for...

Chapter 6

Introducing Quality of Service Criteria into Supply Chain Management for Excellence (pages 70-85)

Roman Gumzej, Brigita Gajšek

This article is focused on a sub domain of quality, namely, quality of service. Considering supply chain management, the authors believe that it is important to distinguish between a quality of product (also service) offered by...

Chapter 7

Building an Expert-System for Maritime Container Security Risk Management (pages 86-108)

Jaouad Boukachour, Charles-Henri Fredouet, Mame Bigué Gningue

Until lately, transportation risk management has mostly dealt with natural or man-made accidental disasters. The September 11th tragedy has made transportation operators, as well as shippers and public authorities, aware of a new...

Developing Networking Excellence

Chapter 8

The Development of Synergy Model on Internal and External Suppliers for Asian Airlines Industry (pages 110-128)

Yudi Fernando, Norizan Mat Saad, Mahmod Sabri Haron, Suhaiza Zailani

This paper examines the airline industry to develop a synergy model in internal and external suppliers for Asian airlines industry. An extensive literature review is conducted to present a synergy model to develop Asian airline...

Chapter 9

The 2008 Survey of Indian Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Service Providers: Comparisons with the 2004 Survey of Indian 3PLs and 2006 Survey of North American 3PLs (pages 129-147)

Subrata Mitra

This paper presents a survey of Indian third-party logistics (3PL) providers and compares the state of the industry with that in 2004 based on an earlier survey. The 3PL industries of India and North America are also compared. The...

Chapter 10

IT-Based Classification for Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms (pages 148-162)

Fereshteh Ghahremani, Mohammad Jafar Tarokh

Managing dependencies via coordination is an effective solution for the problems that arise from these interdependencies in supply chains. This can be practical via a set of methods called coordination mechanisms. Numerous...

Chapter 11

Analyzing the Lead Time and Shipping Lot-Size in a Chaotic Supply Network (pages 163-177)

Mohammad Jafar Tarokh, Sina Golara

Supply network issues recently have attracted a lot of attention from industrial practitioners and academics worldwide. Supply networks are highly complex systems. The oscillations in demand and inventory as orders pass through the...

Chapter 12

An Empirical Investigation on the Use of Buffers and Incentives in Non-Hierarchical Networks (pages 178-192)

Roberto Pinto, Fabiana Pirola, Tobias Mettler

Delivery reliability has shifted from being an order winner to being an order qualifier in many industrial and service sectors. Thus, companies are forced to take into consideration all the aspects that might impact on such an...

Chapter 13

Dynamic Formation of Business Networks: A Framework for ‘Quality of Information’-Based Discovery of Resources (pages 193-210)

Markus Eurich, Claudia Villalonga, Roman Boutellier

New business opportunities rarely conform to the way the industry traditionally approached the market, which is an opportunity for newcomers and flexible small and medium-sized enterprises to be the first in recognizing and taking...

Towards Sustainable Economy

Chapter 14

A Critical Assessment of Environmental Degeneration and Climate Change: A Multidimensional (Political, Economic, Social) Challenge for China’s Future Economic Development (pages 212-229)

Christian Ploberger

China and its population are confronted with fundamental environmental challenges, as both, environmental degeneration and the impact of climate change, exhibit critical social, economic and political implications for their future...

Chapter 15

Promoting Technological Environmental Innovations: The Role of Environmental Regulation (pages 230-247)

Jacqueline C. K. Lam, Peter Hills

This paper reviews and discusses the debate over the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting industrial Technological Environmental Innovation (TEI). Using the innovation-friendly regulatory principles adapted from...

Chapter 16

Information Technology Resources Virtualization for Sustainable Development (pages 248-262)

Malgorzata Pankowska

Today, business organizations seem to be involved in the processes of sustainable development. Therefore, not only economic indicators of performance are considered but also the environmental responsibility is equally important. The...

Chapter 17

The Firm Boundary Decision for Sustainability-Focused Companies (pages 263-283)

Ozan Özcan, Kingsley Anthony Reeves

This paper examines the vertical integration level of environmentally sustainable and non-sustainable companies. The first part develops the theoretical foundation for linking sustainability strategies to organizational structure....

Chapter 18

Study on Low-Carbon Economy Model and Method of Chinese Tourism Industry (pages 284-317)

Zhang Mu, Luo Jing, Zhang Xiaohong, Tang Lei, Feng Xiao-na, Chen Shan

Recent years saw the global wave of new low-carbon economy which is a strategic measure to cope with global warming, and it has gained concerns from many governments. As the representatives of developing countries, China is...

Chapter 19

A Closed-Loop Logistics Model for Green Supply Chain Management (pages 318-333)

A. H. Basiri, A. Shemshadi, M. J. Tarokh

Recently, with the environmental crisis, Green supply chain management (or GSCM), and in particular closed loop supply chain model, has received considerable attention by researchers. Closed loop supply chain model aims at reduction...

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