Supply Chain Management on Demand - Strategies and Technologies, Applications

During recent years, competitive pressures and short product lifecycles have caused many manufacturing and retail companies to focus on supply chain management practices and applications. Continuing shifts in the geopolitical situation and emerging markets have opened up new business opportunities, and at the same time kept companies busy revising their supply chain structures - manufacturing locations, warehouse locations, inbound logistics, and distribution operations. This has led to an increased demand in strategic supply chain planning tools, such as supply chain simulators and location optimization tools.
New techniques and practices for highly efficient supply chain management, made possible by the rapid progress in information and communication technologies, are explained in this book. It is written by supply chain researchers, consultants, and supply chain practitioners who have not only developed the practices but have deployed these practices in various supply chains at IBM and other companies.

List of contents

Beyond ROI.- Supply Chain Simulation.- Inventory Management in High Technology Value Chains.- Product Pricing in the e-Business Era.- Applications of Implosion in Manufacturing.- Strategic Sourcing and Procurement.- Managing Risk with Structured Supply Agreements.- Reverse Logistics - Capturing Value in the Extended Supply Chain.- Service Parts Logistics Management.- Business Process Integration.- Collaboration in e-Supply Networks.- Sense and Respond Business Performance Management.

Product details

• Assisted by: Chae An (Editor), Hansjörg Fromm (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9783642063732
• ISBN: 978-3-642-06373-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 332 p. 87 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Management, A, Software Engineering, computer science, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Multimedia Information Systems, Management & management techniques, Computer Communication Networks, Operating systems, Management of specific areas, Engineering economy, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering economics, Industrial Management, Engineering: general, Computer communication systems, Computer networking & communications, Network hardware, Distributed databases, Input/Output and Data Communications, Input-output equipment (Computers)