Supply Chain Sustainability and Raw Material Management: Concepts and Processes: Concepts and Processes

Farahani, Reza Zanjirani

Dec 2011 · IGI Global

About this ebook

Many organizations find supply chain management an essential prerequisite to building a sustainable competitive edge for their services or products. While interest in SCM is enormous, lack of theoretical frameworks and real world applications often characterizes research in the field, and effective management of the supply chain remains elusive.

Supply Chain Sustainability and Raw Material Management: Concepts and Processes is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for operations researchers, management scientists, industrial engineers, and other business practitioners and specialists looking for systemic and advanced discussions of supply chain management. By presenting qualitative concepts, quantitative models, and case studies, this book is a coherent guide to creating long-term and sustainable performance for organizations who want to compete in the global market.

About the author

Reza Zanjirani Farahani graduated with a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Dr. Farahani has around 12 years experience in academia and business including at National University of Singapore (2 years as Research Fellow A), Sharif University of Technology (4.5 years as teaching fellow) and Amirkabir University of Technology (5.5. years as assistant Prof. and associate Prof.). Farahani is currently working as Senior Lecturer at Kingston Business School. Over recent years he has published many journal papers mostly published in top tier journals like European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and Annals of Operations Research in various areas of operations management like supply chain management and outbound logistics, inbound logistics, operations management, transportation planning, facilities planning, facilities location and facilities design using traditional and modern operations research techniques. Moreover, he has several published and accepted books and book chapters with leading publishers like Springer-Verlag, Elsevier, and IGI Global. Dr. Farahani has had many grants over last 10 years from different industries.

Shabnam Rezapour earned the PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology. From Sep. 2006 till Sep. 2010, Dr. Rezapour was working as a researcher of Logistics and Supply Chain Management research group, Institute of Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) at Iran ministry of commerce. Sine Sep. 2010, Rezapour has been working as an Assistant Professor at Urmia University of Technology. The author’s research interests are competitive facilities location problems, risk management in supply chain, disruption in supply chain management, green supply chain, and optimization under uncertainty. Over recent years Dr. Rezapour has published many journal papers in the field of operations research, data mining, and fuzzy logics. The author has several published and accepted books and book chapters with leading publishers like Springer-Verlag, Elsevier, and IGI Global.

Laleh Kardar is a PhD student of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston (UH), USA. She received two B.Sc. degrees in biomedical and industrial engineering and a M.Sc. degree in biomedical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2005, 2007, and 2008, respectively. From Feb. 2007 till Jul. 2010, Kardar was working as a researcher of Logistics and Supply Chain Management research group, Institute of Trade Studies and Research (ITSR) at Iran ministry of commerce. She has co-authored and edited three books in the field of Logistics and Supply Chain Management under Springer-Verlag, Elsevier, and IGI Global. Her current research interests concern the design of algorithms for optimization problems in health care industry. She is serving as a secretary of INFORMS student chapter at UH. [Editor]