Global Logistics

Edward Sweeney is Professor of Logistics, based in the Centre for Logistics & Sustainability at Heriot-Watt University , UK. He has held full-time academic posts at Technological University Dublin, the University of Warwick and the University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM), as well as visiting positions at several institutions in Asia and North America. Edward's research has been widely published and he sits on the editorial boards of several leading international supply chain journals. He has worked in close collaboration with many of the world's leading companies across many sectors including electronics, food and drink, life sciences and logistics.Donald Waters is a retired Professor of logistics and operations management. He worked at various universities including the University of Calgary, Canada.

• Chapter - 01: Re-thinking supply chain strategy;Chapter - 02: Linking supply chain management to financial performance;Chapter - 03: Supply chain risk management: finance – the forgotten perspective?;Chapter - 04: Supply chain vulnerability and resilience;Chapter - 05: Fulfilling customer needs in the 2020s with marketing and logistics;Chapter - 06: New procurement directions in supply chain management;Chapter - 07: Maximizing capacity utilization in freight transport;Chapter - 08: Retail logistics;Chapter - 09: Trends and strategies in global logistics and supply chain management;Chapter - 10: Global sourcing and supply 190;Chapter - 11: Supply chain relationships: the foundation of success;Chapter - 12: Delivering sustainability through supply chain management;Chapter - 13: Greening of logistics: cutting pollution and greenhouse gas emissions;Chapter - 14: People powering contemporary supply chains;Chapter - 15: Leadership in logistics;Chapter - 16: Ethics in supply chains: an illustrated survey;Chapter - 17: Humanitarian logistics and supply chain management;Chapter - 18: Digitalization in global supply chain operations;Chapter - 19: Digitalization and Industry 4.0 in logistics;Chapter - 20: Performance measurement and management in the supply chain;Chapter - 21: Aligning technology, manufacturing and supply chain: why it matters and how to do it;Chapter - 22: The ‘deglobalization’ of logistics and supply chains: operating in an increasingly nationalistic and risky world;

"Supply chains are fundamental to the global economy. There is a now a need to rethink the concept of resilience and to tackle the challenges of achieving net zero emissions and continually evolving consumer demands. This latest version of Global Logistics addresses those issues and provides those in logistics and supply chain operations with valuable and current thinking from which we will all benefit."