Executive summary -- The study presents a new, explorative perspective on the uncertainty of future developments -- Switchpoints are forks in the road of future developments -- Approach and methodology -- Topics, findings and switchpoints -- Detailed discussion of the 18 topics -- Implication of...

Mean-Risk Analysis: An Introduction -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Single-Period Inventory Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Multi-Period Inventory Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Supply Chain Coordination Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis: Conclusion, Future Research and Extensions

Introduction -- By the Numbers: A Visual Chronicle of GHG Emmissions -- Sustainable Supply Chains for Bio-Based Fuels and Chemicals -- Organizing for Sustainability: Exploratory Analysis of the Healthcare Industry -- Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System -- From a...

Introduction -- Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management -- Humanitarian Supply Chain Relationships: Working Together to Meet the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters -- Emblematic Example of Strategic Cross-Sector Partnership: Logistics Emergency Teams

Customer segments form multi-level hierarchical trees in many supply chain planning problems. Sebastian Vogel provides a comprehensive formal overview of such multi-stage customer hierarchies and characterizes the corresponding demand fulfillment problem. Here, the process of quota reservation...

Sustainability advanced to an omnipresent topic among academics and business leaders, while at the same time a growing share of a firm’s total expenditure accounts for purchased materials and services. Yet, academic research still lacks a detailed understanding of how sustainability...

Christian A. Ullrich investigates the optimization potential of integrated supply chain scheduling approaches. Considering a company-internal supply chain, the author´s first research question is whether the results of integrating machine scheduling and vehicle routing are significantly better...

1. Marketing in the aeronautics industry -- 2. The Individual and Organizational Purchase -- 3. Business Marketing Intelligence -- 4. Market Segmentation and Positioning -- 5. Marketing and Sales Action Plan -- 6. Innovation and Product Management -- 7. Marketing of Services -- 8. Pricing Policy...

Entwicklung simultaner realgüter- und finanzwirtschaftlicher Optimierungsmodelle für idealtypische und beliebig strukturierte Netzwerke -- Zur Vereinbarkeit von langfristigen Standort- und Kapazitätsentscheidungen und mittelfristigen Beanspruchungs- und Materialflussentscheidungen --...

Overview of Chapters -- Supply Chain Planning Processes for Two Major Retailers -- The Effects of Firm Size and Sales Growth Rate on Inventory Turnover Performance in the U.S. Retail Sector -- The Role of Execution in Managing Product Availability -- Analytics for Operational Visibility in the...