Case studies of RFID practices for competitive inventory management systems / Alan D. Smith -- An integer programming model to maximize battery manufacturing productivity / Hesham K. Alfares -- Improving security and efficiency of multimodal supply chains using monitoring technology / Johan Scholliers, Sirra Toivonen, Antti Permala, Timo Lahtinen -- RFID: from closed manufacturers' systems to supply chain-wide tracking / Antti Permala, Karri Rantasila, Eetu Pilli-Sihvola, Ville Hinkka -- Ordering policy for imperfect-quality deteriorating items with initial-inspection and allowable shortage under the condition of permissible delay in payments / Chandra K. Jaggi, Mandeep Mittal -- Innovating practices in managing engineering design projects / Fernando Abreu Gonçalves, José Figueiredo -- Essentials of linear programming for managers: from system of inequalities to software implementation / Hossein Arsham, M. Bardossy, D. K. Sharma -- Using holistic strategy to govern today's extended enterprise / Kenneth Saban -- A stakeholder perspective of sustainable supply chain management: evidence from a developing country / Mohamed Gamal Aboelmaged -- Key success drivers for large high-technology projects: prediction and practice / Phil Crosby -- Analysis, critique, and proposed revision of crew resource management for cockpit automation: the R-MPM and ERICA / Ronald John Lofaro -- Beyond the paradox of service industrialization: approaches to design meaningful services / Jesús Alcoba González -- Adoption and utilization of ICT in the Chinese third-party logistics industry / Kwok Hung Lau, Haibo Huang -- A platform for collaborative outbound logistics / Yves Wautelet, Isabelle Mirbel -- Why information systems replication strategy fails in transnational operation / Angela Lin, Shin-Horng Chen -- Framework based on benefits management and enterprise architecture: the private cloud in the business strategy / António Rodrigues, Henrique O'Neill -- Performance of firms: a study of offshore outsource service providers / Soni Agrawal, Kishor Goswami, Bani Chatterjee -- Evolution of supply chain collaboration: implications for the role of knowledge / Michael J. Gravier, M. Theodore Farris.