Overview
- Provides a comprehensive perspective on value generation in global supply chains
- Presents cutting-edge industry and trade cases to highlight the transformation towards closed-loop supply chain systems
- Aligns operational excellence for corporations with benefits for people and planet
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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“The book brings together technical, social, political, and geographical trends, suggesting how supply chain management can lead the quest for many of the world’s most pressing challenges.”
Yossi Sheffi, Professor of Engineering, MIT, Head, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
“This book provides an essential roadmap, guiding the reader easily through complex developments and concepts.”
John Manners-Bell, CEO Transport Intelligence and Honorary Visiting Professor, Guildhall Business School, London
“With strategic foresight, Lehmacher develops a vision of a circular economy within which consumer, manufacturer and logistics companies assume collective responsibility for sustainable value creation.”
Alfred Talke, Group Managing Director ALFRED TALKE Logistic Services
“Those who are active in logistics and supply chain management, in practice or academia, will discover a fresh view on the whole field of activity beyond the day-to-day-business.”
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wimmer, Chairman of the Executive Board, BVL International
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Wolfgang Lehmacher is Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economy Forum. Lehmacher holds a degree in Business Administration from the German Foreign Trade & Logistics Academy (DAV). While working in various renowned companies based in the express, post and logistics sector across Europe and the world over the past 25 years, he has acquired a reputation as expert in global supply chain and logistics.
Prior to joining the Forum, Lehmacher was Partner and Managing Director for China and India at CVA, a global strategy firm leading the global transportation and logistics practice. He also held a range of senior management positions; Lehmacher was President and CEO of GeoPost Intercontinental, the global expansion vehicle of France’s La Poste. For more than 10 years, Lehmacher led the international expansion of La Poste Groupe, first in Europe, then across the globe.
Lehmacher is the author of various publications including “How Logistics Shapes Our Lives”, “Logistics in the Light of Urbanization” and “Is Our Supply at Stake”. With his expertise in supply chain management, global logistics and the express parcel delivery business, Lehmacher is a frequent speaker at events such as the World Economic Forum, the Boao Forum in China, and leading supply chain conferences in the world as well as the Centre of Transportation and Logistics at MIT.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Supply Chain
Book Subtitle: How Technology and Circular Thinking Transform Our Future
Authors: Wolfgang Lehmacher
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51115-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51114-6Published: 10 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84570-8Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51115-3Published: 28 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 169
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Management, Sustainability Management, Sustainable Development