Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems

Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems assimilates the principal views from international authors, who provide a combination of industrial experience and scholarly research, in the area of supply chain systems. This book discusses the business and technical reasons for integrating supply chain systems, and provides excellent arguments for globalization resulting through integration of supply chain systems.
Readers of Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems will receive an overall understanding of what comprises supply chain systems, why they should be integrated and how the resultant global organization will be able to compete and grow in this age of communication. They will also find practical business reasons for the crucial need to integrate supply chain systems in global enterprises and, more importantly, collaborating clusters of organizations.

Dr. Yi-chen Lan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and IT, University of Western Sydney. Dr. Lan holds a Bachelor of Commerce – Computing and Information Systems (Honors) Degree and a PhD Degree from the University of Western Sydney in the area of Global Transitions. Dr. Lan teaches information systems and management courses in both undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to his current academic work, Dr. Lan served in the industries for 5 years, wherein he held senior management responsibilities in the areas of information systems and quality assurance programs in a multinational organization. Dr. Bhuvan Unhelkar has 22+ years of strategic and hands-on professional experience in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. He is an internationally known expert in the field of software modeling and processes with four books, numerous papers and many consulting and training assignments to his credit. Apart from being a recent academic at the University of Western Sydney(UWS), he has also lectured in Global Information Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He leads MIRAG, Mobile Internet Research and Applications Group at UWS, researching and practicing in Mobile Technologies, Web Services and Socio-Cultural perspectives in ICT.. Dr. Unhelkar is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a Rotarian.