Navigating Supply Chain Turbulence : Leveraging Modern Technologies for Safety, Resilience, and Risk Reduction

This book presents issues related to supply chain management, considering contemporary conditions and turmoil. It shows how global events affect the effectiveness and efficiency of logistics, and thus shows how to take them into account and better manage logistics processes in these chains.

The book provides readers with easy-to-use tools to plan and build supply chains that are resilient, reliable, and have reduced risk. In addition, readers receive recommendations for the development and improvement of the efficiency of supply chains. Because of the research and case studies provided, readers learn practical knowledge coming directly from leading companies implementing logistics processes on a global scale. The research results are presented transparently, enabling their practical application in future business activities. In addition, this book discusses future technologies that are or will apply to supply chain management. These technologies are described in specific applications, so the readers can quickly adapt them to the needs of their company.

Justyna Żywiołek, DSc. defended her doctoral dissertation with honors in the field of management science, specializing in security science, entitled: The Impact of Information Process Management on the Security of Knowledge Resources in the Enterprise, at the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Lodz University of Technology. Since January 2015, he has been working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Management at the Technical University of Częstochowa. She is a respected researcher in Poland and abroad for his experience in management issues: knowledge and information management and their security. She has published over 160 articles and is the author/co-author/editor of seven books. She actively participated in presenting research results at various international conferences. He deals with data protection, is an inspector of personal data protection, and is a leading ISO 27001: 2018 auditor. Phd. Eng. Guest Editor of Energies MdPI, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health MdPI Journal, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences. Early Career Editorial Board of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems IF 14.682 and Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal of Management and Applied Research IF 3.508. She participated in multiple Erasmus+ teacher mobility in Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and France.

Andrzej Szymonik has the title of professor in social sciences and the degree of habilitated doctor in management sciences - which he obtained at the University of Warsaw. In 1972-2010, he performed military service, which he completed with the rank of brigadier general. He has extensive practical experience (over 25 years) in managing logistics in the domestic and foreign dimensions, considering threats and unplanned situations. He is the author and co-author of many books on logistics and security (details can be found at www.gen-prof.pl). He has similar achievements in published articles, the content of which is related to logistics, ecology, and security of supply chains. Currently, he works in the Supply Chain Management Department at the Lodz University of Technology, at the Faculty of Organization and Management.

Tomasz SMAL, DSc. graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw and the University of Defense in the Czech Republic. He conducts scientific activities in the operation of weapon systems and management in logistics and transportation systems. He has conducted over 20 scientific projects; he is the author or co-author of over 100 articles and 10 monographs. He served as a professional soldier in the Polish Armed Forces logistics system. Then he conducted scientific and didactic activities in a military academy, where he was multi-awarded for scientific and military activities. Currently, he is a civilian professor at UWSB University in Wroclaw, where he researches the security and resilience of logistics systems. He participated in multiple Erasmus+ teacher mobility in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, and Greece.