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

• Main Author: Hübner, Reinhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 594
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

More and more often practitioners in process industry have to adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia does not sufficiently capture the economic and technical questions that have to be resol...

Table of Contents:

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