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Supply Chain and Logistics in National, International and Governmental Environment

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In recent years, the area of supply chain management (SCM) has become very popular. This is evidenced by marked increases in practitioner and academic publications, conferences, professional development programs and university courses in the area. While interest in SCM is immense, it is clear that much of the knowledge about SCM resides in narrow functional silos such as purchasing, logistics, IT and marketing. This growing area of knowledge needs more attention; first of all, there isn’t any manuscript considering the new eras of this discipline; in addition, most of the existent texts concentrate on the missing theoretical aspects and empirical evidences. This book tries to consider both sides and, at the end of each chapter, theories are illustrated by case studies. This chapter introduces logistics and SCM and contains some primary definitions about these two concepts. Some obstacles, pre-requisites and infrastructures of modernized logistics and SCM and global SCM are also illustrated.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Reza Zanjirani Farahani

  2. Logistics & Supply Chain Researches & Studies Group, Institute for Trade Studies & Research, Tehran, Iran

    Reza Zanjirani Farahani & Hoda Davarzani

  3. Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Nasrin Asgari

  4. Industrail Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    Hoda Davarzani

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    Farahani, R.Z., Asgari, N., Davarzani, H. (2009). Overview. In: Zanjirani Farahani, R., Asgari, N., Davarzani, H. (eds) Supply Chain and Logistics in National, International and Governmental Environment. Contributions to Management Science. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2156-7_1

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