Supply Networks in Developing Countries: Sustainable and Humanitarian Logistics in Growing Consumer Markets

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78966-501-7
Verlag: KOGAN PAGE

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Developing consumer markets offer exciting economic opportunities to multinational companies that can obtain a market share. However, too often poor infrastructure, difficult trade procedures and fragmented retail markets makes it a challenge to break into these regions. Supply Networks in Developing Countries examines how companies have succeeded in overcoming these supply chain challenges in these difficult business environments and provides research to explain how these principles can be applied.

Supply Networks in Developing Countries includes case studies from big name brands such as Coca-Cola and Unilever, who have managed to use creative ways, in line with how businesses work in these developing countries, to tap into the global growth. From utilizing unconventional methods of transportation, to adopting innovative approaches to reach remote regions not accessible via trucks, these strategies offer insights into how to operate in these countries. This book covers a wide range of topics including sourcing, warehousing, humanitarian logistics as well as future trends and opportunities - this is the guide to forming an effective approach to these emerging markets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chingono, Tatenda

Mbohwa, Charles

Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter - 01: Introduction; Chapter - 02: Supporting frameworks for logistics operators; Chapter - 03: Disaster management in Africa, case studies; Chapter - 04: Logistics channels and network design with African case studies; Chapter - 05: Sourcing, inventory, transportation and warehousing; Chapter - 06: Management strategies; Chapter - 07: Modelling supply chains; Chapter - 08: Strategies and opportunities for reverse logistics; Chapter - 09: Information technology in humanitarian logistics; Chapter - 10: Humanitarian logistics in the 4th Industrial Revolution; Chapter - 11: Logistics in developing countries, the way forward

Über Autor(innen)

Tatenda Talent Chingono lectures in the Department of Transportation and Supply Chain Management at the University of Johannesburg.

Charles Mbohwa is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg. He was formerly a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Zimbabwe.

Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes is a Professor of Operations Management and Head of the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at the University of Derby