Strategic Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: An Application to Specialty Chemicals Production Network Design

ISBN-13: 9783540721802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 243 str.

Reinhard Hubner

Opis

Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the necessary operations research decision support tools. It builds on an example of the specialty chemicals industry.

Spis treści

Production Network Design and Specialty Chemicals.- Global Production Network Optimization.- Evaluation of Individual Production Sites.- Case Study Production Network Optimization.- Conclusion.