Reports show that it is necessary to control greenhouse gas emissions from the supply chain perspective. Numerous authors have already started quantifying the impacts of emission trading on supply chain performance in terms of cost and emissions. However, rare effort is made to conceptualize...

Additive manufacturing (AM), or popular scientific 3D printing, disseminates in more and more production processes. This changes not only production processes themselves, e.g. by replacing subtractive production technologies, but AM will in all likelihood also impact the configuration of supply...

Automotive companies have successfully adopted mass customization. However, this production method has complicated the sales process as the customer has to go through a lot of steps to specify the product. Thus, it is important that the sales process is modified to make the producer–buyer...