There is a deep structural transformation going on In the Finnish electrical, electronics and IT services sector. The main reason is a major turning point in ICT due to diminishing production and employment in mobile telecom industry where large amount of high-skill jobs will disappear in the...

Dieses Buch stellt wissenschaftliche Fortschritte in den Bereichen Einkauf, Materialwirtschaft, Supply Chain Management und Logistik vor. Es ist zugleich Tagungsband des an der Universität Mannheim durchgeführten 11. Wissenschaftlichen Symposiums "Supply Management“ des Bundesverbands...

Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are important concepts in order to organize and optimize the flow of materials, information and financial funds. This book, already in its fifth edition, gives a broad and up-to-date overview of the...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Foreword -- 1. Basic concepts of the fashion supply chain -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Supply chain and supply chain management -- 1.3 Supply chain environment -- 1.4 Outsourcing and off-shoring -- 1.5...

This book offers a bridge between our current understanding of supply chain risk in practice and theory, and the monumental shifts caused by the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution. Supply chain risk and its management have experienced significant attention in scholarship and practice...

Cover -- Retail Supply Chain Management -- Contents -- Preface -- Authors -- Section I THE RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN -- 1 Defining the Retail Supply Chain -- 1.1 More Than Stores -- 1.2 Defining Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management -- 1.3 The Importance of Customer Segments -- 1.4 Adding Value...

About the authors -- Preface -- The retail industry & supply chain management -- Defining the retail supply chain -- Success in a retail business -- Types of retail supply chain businesses -- A changing world: moving toward comparative advantage -- Corporate social responsibility, sustainability...