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It is possible to assert that we have now fully entered the era of artificial intelligence (AI), given the current state of technology and society. Whether or not we are aware of its presence, a growing proportion of the activities that comprise our day-to-day lives include the application of technology that makes use of artificial intelligence. AI can be found in our "smart" phones and TVs, personalized recommendations for products in online shops or other businesses use AI techniques, natural language processing can be used for automatic translation, voice recognition, and generation, and the intelligent assistants of Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft (such as Alexa, Siri, and Cortana) ...
Sai Santosh Yerasuri, Supply Chain Manager, Evonik Corporation, California State University Northridge, USA, North America. Dr.Maddela Prasanthi, Associate Professor, Department of Management, RG Kedia College of Commerce, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Dr.L.Karikalan, Professor and Head, Department of Automobile Engineering, Vels Institute of Science Technology & Advanced Studies (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Dr.Vijayakumar Umasekar, Sr.Project Engineer, Department of Project Management, National Marine Dredging Company, United Arab Emirates.
Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a comprehensive, fully up-to-date introduction to the subject. Addressing both practical and strategic perspectives, this revised and updated fourth edition offers readers a balanced and integrated presentation of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM)concepts, practices, technologies, and applications. Contributions from experts in specific areas of LSCM provide readers with real-world insights on supply chain relationships, transport security, inventory management, supply chain designs, the challenges inherent to globalization and international trade, and more. The text examines how information, materials, products, and services flow ac...
This book addresses decision making in reverse logistics, which concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply chain as valuable resources. It covers a wide range of aspects, related to distribution, production and inventory management, and supply chain management. For each topic, it highlights key managerial issues in real-life examples and explains which quantitative models are available for addressing them. By treating a broad range of issues in a unified way, the book offers the reader a comprehensive view on the field of reverse logistics.
This textbook offers students a systematic guide to how information systems underpin organisational activity in today's global information society, covering everything from ICT infrastructure and the digital environment to electronic marketing, mobile commerce and design thinking. While academically rigorous and underpinned by the author's deep knowledge of the subject, an engaging writing style combined with extensive pedagogical features, cases and innovative examples from around the world ensure that the text remains accessible to those approaching the topic for the first time. Taking an approach that views businesses as complex systems, the book illustrates how valuable systems thinking ...
The five-volume set IFIP AICT 630, 631, 632, 633, and 634 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2021, held in Nantes, France, in September 2021.* The 378 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 529 submissions. They discuss artificial intelligence techniques, decision aid and new and renewed paradigms for sustainable and resilient production systems at four-wall factory and value chain levels. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: artificial intelligence based optimization techniques for demand-driven manufacturing; hybrid approaches for production pl...
This textbook offers an essential introduction to design orientation in business, which impacts the way management is undertaken world-wide. Design orientation, as it applies to business, is the process through which a designer analyses business as a system, identifies motivation for changing the system, and designs improvement for the organisation, as well as ways of implementing this improvement. It involves strategic and innovative thinking, communication with key stakeholders, and change management. This book provides coverage of critical tools for design which enable business professionals to analyse existing ways of organizing and to design new ways of organizing. The reader will learn...
The book is a collection of studies dedicated to different perspectives of three dimensions or pillars of the sustainability of supply chain and supply chain management - economic, environmental, and social - and other aspects related to performance evaluation, optimization, and modelling of and for sustainable supply chain management, and thus presents another valuable contribution to sustainable development and sustainable way of life.