Global Supply Chain and Operations Management / Springer Texts in Business and Economics (PDF)

Dr. Dmitry Ivanov is a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Germany. For the past 20 years, he has been teaching operations management, supply chain management, and logistics at the undergraduate, graduate, PhD and executive MBA levels at various universities worldwide. He has authored over 300 publications, including more than 100 papers in international academic journals and several books published with Springer. Dr. Ivanov's main research interests and findings range from ripple effect control in supply chains, development of structural dynamics control methods for supply chains, and the formulation and solution of scheduling problems in Industry 4.0, to digital supply chain twins. He is also an active editor for several leading international journals.

Dr. Alexander Tsipoulanidis, MBA, is a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), Germany. He has over 20 years of international experience in factory planning and restructuring, optimizing existing operations, and supply chain and operations consulting. Dr. Tsipoulanidis has led teams to conduct "Lean Operations Assessments" within a production network spanning more than 40 international sites, has implemented SCM collaboration portals, and has run global SCM efficiency and restructuring programs. His research chiefly focuses on supply chain excellence and lean operations during the digital transformation.

Dr. JörnSchönberger is a Professor of Business Management at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Transport Services and Logistics as part of the Friedrich List Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Science. Prior to his current position, he was a Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL), Germany, and a senior researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. He has