The stock level in industrial companies is frequently subject of critical discussions. Material managers tendtowards high stock levels to ensure delivery and operational readiness. In contrast, controllers demand lowerstock levels to minimize the costs of capital commitment. This decision...

While materials count for a considerable amount of construction costs, the way materials are managed seems to be improvised rather than approached methodically. This study investigates the practice of novel techniques used to manage materials in the construction industry. Techniques that have...

Purpose: Efficient Operations and Supply Chain Management is key to building sustainable competitive edge for companies. However, the achievement of this goal is becoming challenging in the present dynamic production environment, as traditional Manufacturing Planning and Control systems were not...

Materialeffizienz ist für Unternehmen ein wichtiges Thema. Zur Senkung von Kosten und Kostenrisiken, aber auch aus Gründen des Umweltschutzes bemühen sie sich, ihren Materialeinsatz zu verbessern. Sie stoßen dabei auf Hemmnisse beispielsweise finanzieller Art. Unterstützungen der...

Formulating a model which summarises transportation costs, uncertainty and price, we describe how a switch to ICT procurement can impact more readily procured services rather than materials. Uncertainty represents a catch-all factor describing the dovetailing of operations between two neither...

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at...

Collaborative planning deals with aligning the production plans of legally separated companies. This thesis provides an approach for aligning detailed schedules in a scenario where several suppliers are delivering intermediate goods to one manufacturer. For producing the goods in a...