Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems: Novel Approaches: 9781605669748: Business & Management Books

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ISBN13: 9781605669748

EISBN13: 9781605669755

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-974-8

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The intersection of supply chain management and e-business information systems is a significant topic for the modern business world as understanding which technologies will most effectively enable innovative practices is a key management competency.

Innovations in Supply Chain Management for Information Systems: Novel Approaches presents exemplary research on the interface between these two fields, useful to academicians and practitioners keen on streamlining concurrently both information and materials flows across the supply chains. This advanced publication provides recent examinations as well as future directions of development.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Buyer-supplier coordination in e-markets
Collecting consumer behavior data with WLAN
Comparisons of IT in supply chains
Cooperative pricing in manufacturer-e-retailer supply chain
Cost estimation in capacitated environments
E-network integration for synchronizing supply chains
Green supply chain management system
Just-in-time supply chains
RFID data management
RFID in supply chains

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Any company can benefit from the successful implementation of SCM using different information systems options, including enterprise resource planning (ERP) and decision support systems (DSS) that are aimed towards assisting the different functional areas in a supply chain.

– John Wang, Montclair State University, USA

John Wang is a professor in the Department of Information Management and Business Analytics at Montclair State University, USA. Having received a scholarship award, he came to the USA and completed his PhD in operations research from Temple University. Due to his extraordinary contributions beyond a tenured full professor, Dr. Wang has been honored with two special range adjustments in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He has published over 100 refereed papers and seventeen books. He has also developed several computer software programs based on his research findings. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for ten Scopus-indexed journals, such as Int. J. of Business Analytics, Int. J. of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, Int. J. of Information Systems in the Service Sector, Int. J. of Applied Management, Int. J. of Information and Decision Sciences, Int. J. of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, etc. He is the Editor of Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization (five volumes), Data Warehousing and Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (six-volume) and the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 1st (two-volume) and 2nd (four-volume). His long-term research goal is on the synergy of operations research, data mining and cybernetics.

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