Supply Chain Analysis

Supply Chain Analysis: A Handbook on the Interaction of Information, System, and Optimization is a carefully developed work focused on the analysis of supply chain interaction issues in emerging markets and industry sectors. It is a leading-edge handbook that will emphasize where little work has been done and where the “rubber meets the road” – the supply chain process, information, and systems integration. These are pertinent issues facing practitioners and researchers in today’s business environment.

This is a gap-bridging handbook that analyzes interaction issues from both the research and practitioner sides. The result is a volume that examines and provides practical solutions on interaction issues while being firmly grounded in research principles.

An outstanding team of editors: Chris Tang is well-known and highly regarded in the area of Supply Chain Management. He is both a department chairman and the Edward Carter Professor of Business Administration at UCLA Anderson School; Professor Wei is the Dean of the Faculty of Business at the City University of Hong Kong, and is an eminent scholar in the area of Information Technology; Professor Teo has extensive experience in the area of Supply Chain Management and Optimization, and he is with the NUS Business School at the National University of Singapore.

• Business Administration
• ISO 9000
• Integrated Supply Chain
• Outsourcing
• Planning
• Supply Chains
• calculus
• distribution
• emerging economies
• optimization
• supply chain management
• supply chain network
• supply chain practices
• Engineering Economics

From the reviews:

"The authors of ‘Supply Chain Analysis’ collected twelve academic articles that discuss specific branches (supermarkets, chemicals, cosmetics, containers, clothing and second-hand goods) and that view topical themes … in a academic and sometimes mathematical context. Every chapter is, in fact, a well thought-out article about subjects that really … should, take up an entire book by themselves. … this book is successful initiative towards taking a more scientific approach to supply chain management, without losing track of practical usefulness." (Supply Chain Movement, October, 2009)

“‘Supply Chain Analysis: A Handbook on the Interaction of Information, System and Optimisation’ is an informative and wide-ranging collection of supply chain analysis research in line with Springer’s series of titles on this subject. … Several chapters use more descriptive and qualitative investigation techniques to covey the issues of their particular problem. A number of studies combine both approaches in a very informative way. … it is an interesting collection for those interested in the analysis of supply chains.” (H. Daly, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 61, 2010)

• UCLA Anderson School, Los Angeles, USA

  Christopher S. Tang

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Chung-Piaw Teo

• City University of Hong Kong, China

  Kwok-Kee Wei

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