"This book provides comprehensive coverage of automated supply chain management offering research, methodologies, and frameworks for researchers, graduate students, and management professionals interested in the incorporation of information systems to better support supply chain...

The book deals with collaborative planning, an approach to supply chain planning which aims to coordinate planning tasks of independent supply chain partners while respecting their local decision authority. The major contribution of this work is to provide a process model concerned with the...

Subcontracting has become a prominent business practice across many industries. Subcontracting of industrial production is generally based on short-term need for additional processing capacity, and is oftentimes employed by manufacturers to process customer orders more quickly than using only...