Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing

With increasingly decentralized manufacturing systems and outsourcing, more robust and practical approaches and systems are needed to support agile manufacturing operations. Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing presents a focused collection of quality chapters on the state-of-the-art research efforts in the area of enterprise network and logistics, as well as their practical applications towards agile manufacturing. The book describes recent developments and innovations in this area, presenting both a broad-based review of the key areas of research in agile manufacturing, and an in-depth treatment of individual methodologies and systems from enterprise networks and logistics to supply chain scheduling and management.

Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing will benefit a broad readership from academic researchers to practicing engineers across all manufacturing sectors.

Innovative Supply Chain Systems Dispersed Networked Manufacturing: From Models to Practice Extended Network and Logistics in an International Supply Chain An Empirical Study of Relationship Marketing in Members’ Development Process of a Virtual Community Chinese Style Business Networking in Small Firms Barriers of 3PL System for Agile Manufacturing Logistics and Supply Chain Management: A Case of an Aviation Industry Extended Enterprise Paradigm for Agile Manufacturing Industrial Networks of The Future - A Critical Commentary on Research and Practice Business Process Engineering for Extend Enterprise Development Real Option Theory for Enterprise Network Management Strategic, Agile and Adaptive Network Management for SMEs Reverse Logistics in the UK: A Myth or Reality? An Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Scheduling Approach A Virtual Maintenance Architecture for a Manufacturing Enterprise Network

Lihui Wang is a professor of virtual manufacturing at the University of Skövde’s Virtual Systems Research Centre in Sweden. He was previously a senior research scientist at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, and a registered professional engineer in Canada. His research interests and responsibilities are in web-based and sensor-driven real-time monitoring and control, distributed machining process planning, adaptive assembly planning, collaborative design, supply chain management, as well as intelligent and adaptive manufacturing systems. S.C. Lenny Koh is Chair in Operations Management, Director of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, Associate Dean of Alumni Relations, and Head of the Operations Management Group at the University of Sheffield’s Management School, UK. She is also a co-founder of the Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS) Consortium. Her industrial and research experiences include implementation and operations of MRP/MRPII/ERP systems, batch-manufacturing and high-tech environments, directorships/leaderships in the agricultural sector, directorships and management in the business-to-business and business-to-consumer food supply chains, business ventures and investment, uncertainty management, and low carbon and green supply chain.