Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Within the context of globalization, it is imperative that we gain an enhanced understanding of factors affecting integrated cargo shipping systems to respond to the growth of global trade. This becomes ever more salient in a COVID and post COVID world. In this chapter, we discuss the logistics and supply chain management of cargo shipping systems from four perspectives, in terms of reliability, availability, testability, and maintainability. Reliability can be measured as robustness over time as a leading key performance indicator (KPI). Robustness became a fundamental requirement at every level of the production hierarchy from the process/machine level, supply chain through the system and enterprise levels,…