Supply Chain Planning: Quantitative Decision Support and Advanced Planning Solutions

ISBN-13: 9783642100987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 392 str.

Springer

Opis

This book addresses decision-making activities in supply chain management at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. The primary focus is on the application of quantitative methods, and it includes recent research results on collaborative planning.

Spis treści

Decision making in supply chains.- A framework for collaborative planning and state-of-the-art.- Simulation and optimization of supply chains: alternative or complementary approaches?.- Demand Management.- Revenue management and demand fulfillment: matching applications, models and software.- Active demand management for substitute products through price optimisation.- Customer segmentation, allocation planning and order promising in make-to-stock production.- Managing product availability in an assemble-to-order supply chain with multiple customer segments.- Inventory reservation and real-time order promising in a Make-to-Stock system.- Inventory Management.- Setting safety stocks in multi-stage inventory systems under rolling horizon mathematical programming models.- Supplier managed inventory in the OEM supply chain: the impact of relationship types on total costs and cost distribution.- Vendor-managed inventory and the effect of channel power.- Applications in the chemical industry.- Value chain management for commodities: A case study from the chemical industry.- MILP-based campaign scheduling in a specialty chemicals plant: a case study.- Applications in the automotive industry.- Supply chain planning in the German automotive industry.- Modeling and optimazing of strategic and tactical production planning in the automotive industry under uncertainty.

O autorze

Hans-Otto-Günther, geb. 1948 in Gelsenkirchen, ist nach Lehrstuhlvertretungen an den Universitäten Bonn und Bayreuth und einer Professur an der Universität Wien seit 1993 Inhaber eines Lehrstuhls für Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Produktionsmanagement an der Technischen Universität Berlin. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Anwendung quantitativer Methoden in Produktion und Logistik sowie die computergestützte Planung in Supply Chain Networks. Prof. Dr. Herbert Meyr lehrt an der T U Darmstadt. Sein Fachgebiet ist Produktion & Supply Chain Management.

Blurb

Today supply chain management (SCM) is recognized as a powerful competitive weapon. This book addresses decision making activities in SCM at the strategic, tactical and operational decision level. It presents recent research results on collaborative planning in supply chains, demand and inventory management in logistics networks as well as applications in the chemical and automotive industry. The primary focus of this book is on the application of quantitative methods, which also form the basis of commercial advanced planning software systems. Its contributions are written by leading experts from academia and business. The book addresses practitioners as well as academic researchers in supply chain management, logistics and production planning.