The study of logistics and supply chain management become a
trending topic recently. Researcher and practitioners have been
working to elaborate the concept, strategy, framework and
application of logistics and supply chain management in industrial
operations. Thus, the competition is not between firms any more
but it is all about logistics and supply chain management strategy
competition. The progress of world wide regulations and law,
global completion, the increasing demand from customers in social
and environmental considerations and the sustainability issues has
forced researchers and industrial practitioners to expand the
perspective on beyond logistics and supply chain management
concept. Reverse logistics and green supply chain management are
such the innovative ideas for researcher to discuss and for industry
practitioners to adopt. This book attempts to describe the concept
of supply chain management and logistics in traditional system and
figure out the progress of green supply chain management and
reverse logistics study. The first two chapters of this book overviews
the concept of supply chain management in both perspective
application of strategic and operational levels based supply chain
management’s business process and supply chain management
elements. The last two chapters of this book give more attention
on these areas: green supply chain management and reverse
logistics specifically on the previous study has been done by
researchers. The overview and review of green supply chain
management and reverse logistics in this book would help readers
to understand more about the concept of logistics and supply
chain management and would give new directions of further
research in green supply chain management and reverse logistics.