The ramp-up of a new product leads to changes and adjustments within the production and logistics system of a firm. This change process causes additional costs. The forecasting and planning of costs incurred during the ramp-up phase is still an unsolved problem within ramp-up management. In...

Although supply chain management has been discussed in both science and business for a long time a unified definition does not exist. That causes that the realization of supply chain management in business is very differential. A good approach to realize integrated supply chain management is to...