Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning Concepts, Models, Software and Case Studies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stadtler, Hartmut (Editor), Kilger, Christoph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Production management.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; IT in Business.; Industrial and Production Engineering.

Supply Chain Management concerns organizational aspects of integrating legally separated firms as well as coordinating material and information flows within a production-distribution network. Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems being used for transaction handling and order execution in most...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Management — An Overview
• Supply Chain Analysis
• Types of Supply Chains
• Advanced Planning
• Concepts of Advanced Planning Systems
• Structure of Advanced Planning Systems
• Strategic Network Planning
• Demand Planning
• Master Planning
• Demand Fulfilment and ATP
• Production Planning and Scheduling
• Purchasing and Material Requirements Planning
• Distribution and Transport Planning
• Coordination and Integration
• Collaborative Planning
• Implementing Advanced Planning Systems
• The Definition of a Supply Chain Project
• The Selection Process
• The Implementation Process
• Actual APS and Case Studies
• Architecture of Selected APS
• SCM in a Pharmaceutical Company
• Food and Beverages
• Computer Assembly
• Demand Planning of Styrene Plastics
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Scheduling of Synthetic Granulate
• Conclusions and Outlook
• Conclusions and Outlook
• Supplement
• Forecast Methods
• Linear and Mixed Integer Programming
• Genetic Algorithms
• Constraint Programming.