This book describes approaches, opinions, and concepts for new and emerging solutions and technologies that could be successfully applied in the configuration, optimization and management of supply networks in the highly volatile environment of today's global economy. It features numerous case studies and quantitative research from different sectors and different countries. The authors, which include academics and managers alike, present tips on technical, organizational, financial and social aspects of implementing the new SMART solution. Dynamic and changing market conditions have made it necessary for companies to act in networks to maintain their competitive position. Accordingly, they have to adapt their own actions to those of other market players, which requires a SMART attitude: today's supply networks need to be Sustainable, Modern, Adaptive, Robust and innovative Technology-oriented. For example, this concerns making decisions about the extent to which a business model should be green or lean. In turn, these decisions impact logistics, IT, environmental issues and co-operation between suppliers, customers, competitors, and complementors.

Highlights innovative tools, technologies, methods, and instruments for supply network management Contains both theoretical and practical approaches presented by academics and managers Presents the main problems and challenges involved in introducing the new SMART solutions Shows, on the basis of empirical studies, a rare perspective that allows the co-existence of green and lean supply chains

Inhalt
Part I: New Technologies Supply Networks.- E-Supply Network Management Unused Potential?.- Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain.- New Technological Solutions in Logistics on the Example of Logistics Operators in Poland and Ukraine.- Part II: Measurement and Improvement of Supply Networks.- Smart Supply Network - Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges.- Measuring Performance of Adaptive Supply Chains.- Losses in Transportation Importance and Methods of Handling.- Part III: Green Supply Networks.- The Importance of Intra-Firm Relationships in Green Supply Chain Management A Conceptual Framework.- Green and Lean Activities of Vertically Integrated Links as a Way of Creating Smart Supply Networks.- The Importance of Information Flow and Knowledge Exchange for the Creation of Green Supply Chains.- Part IV: E-Commerce and Digitalization.- Mutual Influence of Traditional Trading Chains and E-Commerce: Trends and Metrics.- Digital Consumer Needs in Digital Supply Network Creation.-Value for the Customer in the Logistics Service of E-Commerce.- The Influence of Prosumers on the Creation and the Process of Intelligent Products Flow.