E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions

Modern day supply chain management (SCM) continues to influence the economic and political landscape while being shaped by the wide array of forces known collectively as globalization. Instead of the traditional mode of firms competing against firms, there now are supply chains competing against supply chains. What is in good currency today refers to a firm's ability to identify the right suppliers to execute a given activity in the value chain, to organize such activities, and to manage its relationship with these suppliers. E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions explores the issues of supply chain management in a new perspective. It provides examples of integrated framework for global SCM, novel ways of improving flexibility, responsiveness, and competitiveness via strategic IT alliances among channel members in a supply chain network, and techniques that might facilitate improved strategic decision making in a SCM environment. E-Business Process Management: Technologies and Solutions introduces a game-theoretic approach to supply chain risk management, real-life case studies, and analyzes the effects of increased transparency in supply chain and business networks.

Jayavel Sounderpandian is a professor of quantitative methods at University of Wisconsin Parkside, USA. He received his master s and doctoral degrees in business administration from Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA, and his bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He teaches operations management, business statistics and decision analysis at undergraduate and graduate levels. Before joining the academia, he worked as an engineer for seven years at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., Bangalore, India. His research interests include decision analysis and supply chain management. He has published numerous research articles and textbooks. Tapen Sinha is the ING Comercial America Chair Professor at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City. He is also a Special Professor at the School of Business, University of Nottingham, UK. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He is the founder-director of the International Center for Pension Research, ITAM and an Associate of the Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies at the University of Nottingham. Professor Sinha has published over one hundred papers and five books. He has been a consultant for a number of multinational companies and governments of different continents.