Collaborative planning deals with aligning the production plans of legally separated companies. This thesis provides an approach for aligning detailed schedules in a scenario where several suppliers are delivering intermediate goods to one manufacturer. For producing the goods in a...

We develop a purchasing portfolio method by integrating a company view, a market-based view and a process view, aggregated in a 3-dimensional portfolio cube. Top management typically takes another view on purchasing issues than purchasing itself. Furthermore, it seems crucial to include the...

Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, Grundlagen über das „Supply ChainManagement“ zu vermitteln und das Beschaffungskostenmanagement als dessen Teilbereich näher zu beschreiben. Eine nachhaltige Kostensenkung kann dabei durch den „Sourcing-Diamanten“ erreicht werden, der somit den Hauptteil...

Market orientation has been cited as a source of competitive advantage that allows the firm to construct offerings superior to those of competitors by the effective collection and dissemination of and reaction to market intelligence. Previous work on market orientation has focused on the effort...

The term business model is relatively recent. Though it appeared for the first time in the 1950s it rose to prominence and reached the mainstream only in the 1990s. Today the term is commonly used, but there is still no single dominant definition.Many different conceptualizations of business...