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...

The current book on Nework Governance contributes to the literature by offering new perspectives on network goals and performance, inter-organizational learning and trust in alliances, corporate governance issues in cooperatives, governance of cross-border retail networks, contract design and...

Einführung in den Bullwhip-Effekt in einem komplexen Produktionsnetzwerk -- Entwicklung eines realitätsadäquaten Simulationsmodells -- Quantifizierung der Wirksamkeit von Maßnahmen gegen den Bullwhip-Effekt.

Aufgrund des Komplexitätsanstiegs von inner- und überbetrieblichen Geschäftsprozessen, die sich unter anderem in der zunehmenden Individualisierung und der Verkürzung von Produktlebenszyklen äußern, befinden sich Unternehmen in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Effizienz durch Standardisierung...

Überblick und Zielsetzung -- Grundlagen -- Analyse und Evaluierung -- Performance Measurement in Supply Chains -- Evaluierung existierender Konzepte -- Konzept und Fallstudie -- Konzept der Supply Chain Balanced Seorecard -- Fallstudie -- Schlussbetrachtung.

The basic idea of the real-time enterprise is to become quicker. A business which wants to become a real-time enterprise has to acquire three main abilities:- Internal and external data is integrated quickly and in real time in a well-organized company data pool,- Analyses of information in the...

Supply Network Design -- Using AHP for Strategic Production Site Assessment: A Case Study from Specialty Chemicals Industry -- Reorganisation eines europäischen Distributions- und Beschaffungsnetzwerks -- An Alternative Modeling Approach for an Integrated Simulation and Optimization of a Class...