This book provides research results and shares experiences in the area of supply chain management. It addresses topics such as risk reduction of lesser marginal profits, disrupted supply chain management, and potential points of business failure. This book explores the new normal of the business supply chain. The didactic approach informs global enterprises on how to deal with the most significant issues in the current supply chain management. The book shows an in-depth analysis of post-COVID opportunities and challenges and acts as an initiative for readers to understand the risks, opportunities, and concerns resulting from the pandemic situation and is a key driver for business management among industry professionals and enterprises.

Readers will learn new insights and procedures to better manage multitier supply chains, predictability, and estimation of binding capacity. The book details modeling and technology-based customer demand and response management solutions. New techniques, methods, and perspectives dealing with the estimation, acceleration or deceleration, and flexibility of logistics capacity are particularly emphasized throughout the manuscript. Real-world cases dealing with various aspects of the new normal for supply chains are analyzed.

The book is useful for industry professionals and enterprise firms in business management to effectively understand risks, opportunities, and concerning the pandemic situation.

Reviews challenges and opportunities for the stages of post-COVID supply chains Focusses on the sustainability of inbound logistics, production, and outbound logistics Explores key dynamics of new normal concerning post-COVID supply chains

Autorentext
Hassan Qudrat-Ullah is Member of the Springer Complexity Board.  He is Professor of Decision Sciences at the School of Administrative Studies at York University, Canada. His research interests include dynamic decision making, system dynamics modeling, and energy planning models.

Inhalt
Part I: Introduction: An Overview of Sustainable Supply Chains.- Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Supply Chains: An Introduction.- Part II: The Unique Perspectives for the Sustainable Supply Chains.- Determinants of ITF R&D Technology Commercialization in Logistics and Supply Chain Industries: R&D Technologist Perspective.- A Meta-Analysis of Sustainable Supplier Selection Approaches.- Green Supply Chain Management, Green Innovations, and Green Practices.- The Road Towards a Circular Economy: The Role of Modular Product Designs in Supply Chains.- Policy Design for Sustainable Supply Chain Through Training: The Case of XYZ Packaging Company.- The Application of System Dynamics for a Sustainable Procurement Operation.- Part III: The Innovative Solutions for Industry-Specific Supply Chains.- Alternative Energy Policy for Mitigating the Asynchrony of the Wind-Power Industry's Supply Chain in Brazil.- Resilience as Basis for Sustainability: Shortages in Production Supply Chains for Essential Consumer Goods.- Designing a Sustainable Tourism Supply Chain: A Case Study from Asia.- Sustainable Food Supply Chain Management: An Integrated Framework and Practical Perspectives.- Risk Assessment of the Timber Supply Chain in Southern Ontario using Agent-Based Simulation.- Part IV: Finale: Sustainable Supply Chains Continuum.- Finale: Sustainable Supply Chains Continuum.