Global Production Networks: Operations Design and Management

This book provides the principles, tools, and techniques of the Internationalization Process to help managers and practitioners to tackle the design and management of a Global Manufacturing and Logistics Networks. It presents a guideline for those companies that have begun the Internationalization Process in recent years and focuses on SMEs, with case studies that show best practices and recent trends. The author offers a methodological answer for the analysis and design of global networks with productive multilocation as well as the design of plants and warehouses and supplier networks in the new international contexts.