The recent economic developments have strongly increased the interest in altering raw material prices and especially in the protection from volatile and increasing prices. Jan Arnold integrates financial and operational aspects into a holistic approach to commodity procurement. He shows how to...

The recent past has seen a growing interest in supply chain management (SCM) topics. Despite the vast amount of published supply chain research, the need for the further refinement of SCM tools is even more relevant today. Numerous studies show that the theoretical SCM concepts still lack...

Supply Chain Management concerns organizational aspects of integratinglegally separated firms as well as coordinating materialand information flows within a production-distribution network.Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems being used for transaction handling and order execution in most...

Call for Action: From Financial and Economic Crisis to Working Capital Trap -- Determination of the Internal Financing Power of Corporate Growth via the Self-Financeable Growth Rate -- Strengthening Internal Financing Power using Cash-to-cash Cycle Optimization -- Measures for Strengthening...