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Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning

Concepts, Models, Software, and Case Studies

  • Leading experts in the fields of Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning from consultancy companies and academia provide insights into the concepts underlying APS
  • Nine case studies cover APS from various software vendors and provide valuable insights regarding its successful implementation
  • As a supplement, basics of major solution algorithms used within APS are introduced accompanied by numerical examples

Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. Basics of Supply Chain Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Supply Chain Management: An Overview

      • Hartmut Stadtler
      Pages 3-28
    3. Supply Chain Analysis

      • Christopher Sürie, Boris Reuter
      Pages 29-54
    4. Types of Supply Chains

      • Herbert Meyr, Hartmut Stadtler
      Pages 55-69
    5. Advanced Planning

      • Bernhard Fleischmann, Herbert Meyr, Michael Wagner
      Pages 71-95
  3. Concepts of Advanced Planning Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. Structure of Advanced Planning Systems

      • Herbert Meyr, Michael Wagner, Jens Rohde
      Pages 99-106
    3. Strategic Network Design

      • Bernhard Fleischmann, Achim Koberstein
      Pages 107-123
    4. Demand Planning

      • Christoph Kilger, Michael Wagner
      Pages 125-154
    5. Master Planning

      • Martin Albrecht, Jens Rohde, Michael Wagner
      Pages 155-175
    6. Demand Fulfilment and ATP

      • Christoph Kilger, Herbert Meyr
      Pages 177-194
    7. Production Planning and Scheduling

      • Hartmut Stadtler
      Pages 195-211
    8. Purchasing and Material Requirements Planning

      • Hartmut Stadtler
      Pages 213-224
    9. Transport Planning for Procurement and Distribution

      • Bernhard Fleischmann, Herbert Kopfer, Christopher Sürie
      Pages 225-240
    10. Coordination and Integration

      • Boris Reuter, Jens Rohde
      Pages 241-256
    11. Collaborative Planning

      • Christoph Kilger, Boris Reuter, Hartmut Stadtler
      Pages 257-277
  4. Implementing Advanced Planning Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
    2. The Definition of a Supply Chain Project

      • Christoph Kilger
      Pages 281-300
    3. The Selection Process

      • Christoph Kilger, Ulrich Wetterauer
      Pages 301-316

About this book

Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are important concepts in order to organize and optimize the flow of materials, information and financial funds. This book, already in its fifth edition, gives a broad and up-to-date overview of the concepts underlying APS. Special emphasis is given to modeling supply chains and implementing APS successfully in industry. Understanding is enhanced by several case studies covering APS from various software vendors. The fifth edition contains updated material, rewritten chapters and an additional case study.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hamburg, Germany

    Hartmut Stadtler

  • Ernst & Young GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Christoph Kilger

  • Department of Supply Chain Management, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    Herbert Meyr

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Stadtler is professor of Business Management at the University of Hamburg. Formerly, he held a chair at Darmstadt University of Technology (1990–2004). From 1987–1990 he was employed as a consultant in the field of production management. He has published numerous articles about operations and supply chain management in international journals like International Journal of Production Research, Management Science, Operations Research, OR Spectrum and Production and Operations Management. He has been department editor for the Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Research.

Dr. Christoph Kilger is partner at Ernst & Young Advisory and head of Supply Chain & Operations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Before, he served for 13 years as a member of the executive board of J&M Management Consulting AG, Mannheim. At J&,M Christoph was responsible for the consulting practices, human resources and knowledge and quality management. From 1996--1999 he worked as project manager with KPMG Consulting. He has in-depth experience in supply chain transformation programs, APS implementations, product life cycle management, manufacturing, logistics and IT. Christoph holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe and is regularly giving lectures at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He is the responsible organizer of the yearly conference Supply Chain Days Heidelberg.

Prof. Dr. Herbert Meyr worked at the department of Production and Logistics at the University of Augsburg from 1994–2003, at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration from 2003–2006 and at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 2007–2011. After finishing his PhD thesis about “Simultaneous Lot sizing and Scheduling for Continuous Production Lines” in 1999, he changed his research interest to model buildingand integration aspects of supply chain planning. He currently holds a chair for Supply Chain Management at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.

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eBook USD 99.00
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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