Supply Chain Configurations of Foreign Cosmetics Companies Operating in China -- Structural Supply Chain Collaboration Among Grocery Manufacturers -- Supply Chain Management in the Chemical Industry: Trends, Issues, and Research Interests -- Berth Allocation Planning Optimization in Container Terminals -- Merchandise Planning Models for Fashion Retailing -- Supply Chain Management in the Presence of Secondary Market -- Global Diffusion of ISO 9000 Certification Through Supply Chains -- Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks -- Trust and Power Influences in Supply Chain Collaboration -- Foreign Direct Investment or Outsourcing: A Tax Integrated Supply Chain Decision Model -- Integrating Demand and Supply Chains -- Mumbai Tiffin (Dabba) Express.

SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS: A Handbook on the Interaction of Information, System, and Optimization is a carefully developed work focused on the analysis of supply chain interaction issues in emerging markets and industry sectors. It is a leading-edge handbook that will emphasize where little work has been done and where the "rubber meets the road" — the supply chain process, information, and systems integration. These are pertinent issues facing practitioners and researchers in today’s business environment. This is a gap-bridging handbook that analyzes interaction issues from both the research and practitioner sides. The result is a volume that examines and provides practical solutions on interaction issues while being firmly grounded in research principles. Some of the topical areas the Handbook examines are: The issue of supply chain design, from the perspective of foreign cosmetic companies in China; The issue of supply chain coordination among the grocery manufacturers. Most notably, the opportunity for strategic, multi-lateral collaboration through a shared distribution network; The impact of online secondary markets on the operational issues of a supply chain; The critical importance of risk and disruption in supply chain; and the huge issue of integrating demand and supply, hence the need to synchronize the supply chain with the demand chain.