Product Description: This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand.  Given the extensive utilization of contracts in supply chains, the issues concerning contract analysis and design are extremely important for supply chain management (SCM), and substantial research has been developed to address those issues over the past years...read more

Product Description: This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management. It contains three parts, organized under the headings of “Reviews and Discussions,” “Analytical Research,” and “Empirical Research,” featuring peer-reviewed papers contributed by researchers from Asia, Europe, and the US...read more

Product Description: The first volume in a new Springer Series on Shipping and Transport Logistics, Oil Transport Management provides a full historical account of the evolution of the oil transport industry since the 1800's. In this comprehensive guide, the authors investigate the industry and describe the shipping market and its structure, as well as forecasting, location plan and the transportation chain...read more

This concise introduction to nutrition and diet therapy for nurses and dietetic tech students is organized by diets rather than organ systems. Written in a lively, conversational style, this paperback applies the chapter material to students lives and future careers via Nutrition in Practice and Case Studies. New Clinical Application questions (similar to those found on the Nursing License Exam) ask students to apply clinical chapter material to realistic cases. The fourth edition includes extensive new coverage of food labeling, nutrient and drug interaction, AIDS, cancer, and weight control. It also includes the 1993 Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.

Product Description: Channel coordination is a core subject of supply chain management. Over the past decade, much research effort has been devoted to exploring the detailed mechanisms for achieving supply chain coordination under uncertainty, generating many fruitful analytical and empirical results...read more

Product Description: Postponement strategy is one of the major supply chain management (SCM) pr- tices that has a discernible impact on rms’ competitive advantage and organi- tional performance. Postponement is a mass customization strategy that captures the advantages of both mass production and mass customization...read more

Product Description: In today's global industrial environment, the quality of products and services has emerged as the key to competitiveness under free market conditions. Written by two quality experts at the forefront of the movement towards worldwide system standardization, this book explores the latest developments in the field of quality management and examines their impact on the implementation of quality assurance systems and on international standardization, auditing and registration processes...read more