Product Description
by Anthony M. Pagano (Author), Mellissa Gyimah (Author)
This book is a collection of chapters on issues we face today in the world of supply chain management. While there are a number of college textbooks related to specific areas within logistics and supply chain issues, there are very few general supply chain management "trends" books. Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management and Logistics consists of seven dynamic, current and informative chapters that cover a variety of cutting-edge supply chain topics of use to both graduate students, and professionals working in the field. The book contains new, original research papers written by academics from the fields of engineering, transportation, marketing, and supply chain management and logistics.
Author Biography
Anthony M. Pagano, is director of the Center for Supply Chain Management and Logistics www.supply-chain.uic.edu at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The author or coauthor of over 150 articles, technical reports, and papers presented at professional meetings, he is the co-author of the book The External Environment of Business: Political Economic, Social and Regulatory, 1995, 2nd edition in 1997. He has been project director or project manager of over 40 separate research and consulting projects. He teaches courses in supply chain and logistics, transportation economics and public policy, and international business. Pagano has a PhD in economics from the Pennsylvania State University.
