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...

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...

Preface -- Introduction (Hartmut Stadtler, Christopher Haub) - Part I -- 1 The Frutado Case 11 (Bernhard Fleischmann) -- 2 Hierarchical Planning and the Supply Chain Planning Matrix (Hartmut Stadtler, Bernhard Fleischmann) -- 3 SAP® APO - Module Matrix and General Principles (Christopher...