Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cheng, T. C. Edwin (Editor), Choi, Tsan-Ming (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: International Handbooks on Information Systems
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Management information systems.; Computer science.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; IT in Business.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Quick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven business strategy in which supply chain members work together to react quickly to volatile market demand. Nowadays, with advances in information technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new challenges and opportunities arise for the application of QR...