TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL 4.0: Resilience, Responsiveness and Reliability

This book provides an introduction to technology-driven supply chain management in the era of Industry 4.0, focusing on resilience, responsiveness, and reliability. It covers key concepts such as the integration of advanced technologies like IoT, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain into supply chain operations. The book explores the application of these technologies in improving supply chain efficiency, enhancing decision-making, and ensuring greater adaptability to disruptions. Performance metrics for evaluating supply chain resilience and responsiveness are also discussed. Detailed case studies and real-world examples are provided to demonstrate the application of these technologies in practice. The book offers practical insights through step-by-step examples, making it accessible for readers to apply these concepts in supply chain Management.Contents: Operational Research for Technology-Driven Supply Chains in the Industry 4.0 Era: Recent Development and Future Studies (S Luo and T-M Choi) Price and Product Quality Decisions for a Two-Echelon Supply Chain in the Blockchain Era (Z Sun, Q Xu and B Shi) Cooperative Decision Making of Supply Chain Members of Shipping Logistics Services Under the Background of Blockchain (Y Chen and B Yang) When and How Should Cross-Border Platforms Manage Blockchain Technology in the Presence of Purchasing Agents? (X Shi, S Yao and Y Ma) The Incentive Study in the Blockchain Era: A Two-Period Strategic Inventory Game (J Zhou and Q Li) Cooperative Promotion of Cross-Market Firms Adopting 3D Printing Technology (K Yan, G Hua and T C E Cheng) Evolutionary Game Models of Cooperative Strategies in Blockchain-Enabled Container Transport Chains (Z -H Hu and Y -J Dong) How to Escape Supply Chain Dilemmas? Manufacturer Encroachment and Supplier Cost-Reduction Investment (Q Wang, J Nie and S Xia) Equilibrium Pricing, Advertising, and Quality Strategies in a Platform Service Supply Chain (Y He, Y Yu, Z Wang and H Xu) Online Pricing Strategy with Considering Consumers' Fairness Concerns (L Yang, Y Zheng, J Fan and S Dong) Impact of RFID Technology on Coordination of a Three-Tier Fresh Product Supply Chain (Q Zheng, B Hu, T Fan, C Xu and X Li) Readership: For undergraduates, graduates students and researchers in Operations Management, Operational Research and Supply Chain Management.Bin Shen is a Professor and Vice Dean at Glorious Sun School of Business and Management of Donghua University, Shanghai. He was a Humboldt Fellow in Germany. His research interests focus on supply chain management, dgtlization, and ESG. His research has appeared in Production and Operations Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Decision Science Journal, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E -Logistics and Transportation Review, among others. He is an associate editor in Transportation Research Part E - Logistics and Transportation Review and a senior editor in Electronic Commerce Research and Application.Ciwei Dong is a Professor at the School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China. His research interests include supply chain management, sustainable operations, technology and operations management, etc. His research has appeared in Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E - Logistics and Transportation Review, Annals of Operations Research, among others.Chi To Ng is a Professor in Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include optimization, supply chain management, operations management, scheduling, health care management, etc. He has published over 170 papers in prestigious international journals, such as Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Operations Research Letters, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, and Computers and Operations Research, among others.