Today’s corporate environments are characterized by growing dynamics and uncertainties. Here, flexibilitygains importance as a critical success factor. This is especially true for long-term customer-supplierrelationships. As a solution to the mentioned uncertainties connected with such a...

Companies from industrialised nations are faced with the threat of competition from low-cost countries. Wesuggest Industrial Product Service Systems (IPS²) as a possible answer. But as the development andproduction can be quite expensive for the supplier, the question arises how the net...