This book identifies accounting-based management control system practices for managing integrated and flexible supply chains and increasing customer satisfaction. It further explores how a company can enhance its supply chain integration and examines how to flexibly manage integrated supply chains from the perspectives of the product/service lifecycle, partner switching, and strategic flexibility.

This book investigates individual companies' and industries' supply chain risk management approaches to identify risk drivers and verify effective risk-reduction and resiliency measures.

Disruptive technologies have the power to upend supply chains and create competitive advantage, but only if organizations strategically build them into their supply chains. This book provides the vital knowledge to implement disruptive technologies strategically by focusing on information systems, analysing how companies currently integrate technologies into their supply chain roadmaps and presenting new ways of planning more effectively thus creating improvements in agility, customer service and cost.

Supply Chain Management is a wide field in which several specialties are included thus a reference which can encompass a range of problems and their modelling approaches is required. This book contains sections on forward, reverse, intelligent, and uncertain problems and their corresponding modelling approaches.

The authors use structural modeling to analyze the evaluation of some manufacturing practices and their impact on customer service satisfaction, agility and flexibility of the SC. The context of this study is immersed in the Mexican manufacturing industry of exportation, also known as maquiladora industry of Ciudad Juarez, México.

Behavioral operations management is a new and growing research field incorporating behavioral aspects of decision making into operations management models, challenging the assumption of fully rational decision makers. Behavioral aspects include risk-aversion, mental accounting, reference points, or bounded rationality. In this book the author presents experimental and empirical studies that address behavioral decision making in the supply chain contracting context.

Examines various management practices required for achieving sustainable food networks. Provides the reader with the insights into the development of new technologies to achieve an effective and sustainable food supply chain.