Business process and operations management Books

The Evolution of Quick Response Programs.- Impact of Information Systems on Quick Response Programs.- Fast Fashion: Achieving Global Quick Response (GQR) in the Internationally Dispersed Clothing Industry.- Modelling and Analysis of QR Programmes.-...

Selected Topics in Cooperative Game Theory.- Algorithmic Game Theory.- Cooperation in Supply Chains.- An Economic Lot Sizing Game.- A Lot Sizing Game with Uncertain Demand.- A Capacitated Lot Sizing Game with Transshipments, Scarce Capacities, and...

Der 2. Band der Buchreihe „Produktion und Management" konzentriert sich auf den Umgang mit Technologien. Die Autoren nehmen Technologiestrategien zum Ausgangspunkt und führen in die grundlegenden Zusammenhänge, Vorgehensweisen und Methoden des...

The book examines the conditions for successful high-technology policy from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It enhances the predominant national systems of innovation approach to innovation policy with concepts based on new developments in the...

As business processes are crucial success factors for companies, software-based Business Process Management (BPM) is becoming more and more important. In this area SAP, the market leader for enterprise application software, has already gathered...

In many decision problems, e.g. from the area of production and logistics manage ment, the evaluation of alternatives and the determination of an optimal or at least suboptimal solution is an important but dif?cult task. For most such problems no...

High-performance process improvement takes process improvement to the next ambition level. The kernel of the substance is a generic process improvement process that operates under the strictest time, quality and cost constraints. Thanks to a modular...

Research and development (R&D) as well as innovation are the drivers of change and the key determinants of growth in many industry and service sectors. In spite of the financial turmoil and restructuring of the world economy after 2008, investment in...

Indetermination and Risk.- Risks and Disasters.- Objective Risk Measures.- Subjective Risk Judgement.- Quality of Life - the Ultimate Risk Measure.- Law and Risk.- Example - Ship Impacts Against Bridges.

Fundamentals.- Product lifecycle management systems.- Product structures.- Integration of the PLM system with other applications.- Deployment of the PLM system.- Business benefits of a PLM system.- Challenges of product management in manufacturing...

Most developed economics show the tendency of an increasing importance of modern services such as tourism, logistical services, finance, and others. In many cases, complex optimization problems can be found in this context, and...

The 60th birthday of Prof. Luczak is the reason for this book. He will be honoured for his research work during the "GfA-confernece" in March 2009. This book is the correspondig "Festschrift" for him.

The international conference \Operations Research 2008", the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), was held at the University of Augsburg on September 3-5, 2008. About 580 p- ticipants from more than...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,0, ( Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg ), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die fortschreitende Globalisierung verursacht eine ständige Zunahme der weltweiten...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Universität Bayreuth (Rech ts‐ und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Produktionswirtschaft und Industriebetriebslehre, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 2,3, Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie Göttingen (Verwaltungs- und Wirtschafts-Akademie Osnabrück), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,7, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Produktionswirtschaft), Veranstaltung: Supply Chain, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Wettbewerbsbedingungen...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,7, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Logistische Prozesse im Unternehmen Krankenhaus konzentrieren sich im Wesentlichen an den...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Hochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld, Veranstaltung: Produktion und Logistik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hauptseminararbeit hat zum Ziel, einen anschaulichen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 2,3, Technische Universität Dortmund, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Durch eine ständig steigende Wettbewerbsintensivierung sehen sich die dienstleistenden ...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1.0, Hochschule Schmalkalden, ehem. Fachhochschule Schmalkalden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es wird eine Fabrik zur Planscheibenproduktion geplant, wobei...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine Vielzahl von Unternehmensbereichen, insbesondere die Entwicklung, ist von der Höhe extern...

In recent years, supply chain planning has emerged as one of the most challenging problems in the industry. As a consequence, the planning focus is shifting from the management of plant-speci?c operations to a holistic view of...

In a globalized economy logistics has become a crucial area for the success of companies. The performance of each company depends on the performance of its suppliers and of its business partners. The customers of each company are spread on a large...

This book deals with collaborative planning, an approach to supply chain planning which aims to coordinate planning tasks of independent supply chain partners while respecting their local decision authority. It gives an...

This book offers examples of how experience and innovation can be combined to create something new, with a particular emphasis on practical implementation, such as generating successful solutions by merging Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...

Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently...

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut The ?ow of academic ideas in the area of computational intelligence has penetrated industry with tremendous speed and persistence...

Besides scheduling problems for single and parallel machines and shop scheduling problems, this book covers advanced models involving due-dates, sequence dependent changeover times and batching. Discussion also extends to...

Scientific knowledge and practical advice are combined in this book. Leading scientists present their latest research results in the area of product and price bundling, with respect to optimization as well as to behavioral...

Dieser Band enthält eine vollständige Dokumentation über das wissenschaftliche Programm der 17. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Operations Research in Berlin. Besondere Schwerpunkte weist diese Tagung auf den...

In this book, production rules are studied for situations which share some important elements. The most important one is that the products are manufactured according to customer specifications and they will not be manufactured...

In production systems there are often capacity oriented performance objectives, like a desired total throughput, a desired average throughput time and average work­ in-process. Such performance objectives are expressed in...

This graduate text develops production theory from a set of reasonable axioms. The theory is presented both in a primal and dual as well as in an indirect (constrained) framework. The basic model leads to a set of efficiency...

Implementing co-operative production networks to secure and foster future competitiveness on the global market is a major strategic target for many small- and medium-sized enterprises. The text starts begins with a look at...

Das Lehrbuch gibt eine Einführung in die Produktionswirtschaft. Dabei steht die Planung der Leistungserstellung und deren organisatorische Einbindung in die Führungsebenen eines Unternehmens im Vordergrund. Besonderes Gewicht...

Scheduling and multicriteria optimisation theory have been subject, separately, to numerous studies. Since the last twenty years, multicriteria scheduling problems have been subject to a growing interest. However, a gap between...

The book focuses on the emerging techniques and technologies for supply chain management and collaboration as well as on the emerging relationships and the electronic transformations governing multichannel retailing. It aims at...

A. Aufgaben und rechtliche Stellung des Spediteurs in der Wirtschaft.- B. Das Speditionsunternehmen.- C. Die einzelnen Speditionszweige.- D. Zur politischen Ordnung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.- Anhang: Formulare.- Sachwortverzeichnis.

This book examines the ways in which cultural and creative industries can drive entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability and overall regional development. It will address such issues as (1) the technical (tangible) components of creative and cultural...

Computational and theoretical open problems in optimization, computational geometry, data science, logistics, statistics, supply chain modeling, and data analysis are examined in this book.  Each contribution provides the fundamentals  needed...

Compiling best practices and original research, this book examines the factors that influence the sustainability of creativity and innovation in organisations and proposes a toolkit to assess gaps within existing strategy. Focusing particularly on the...

This book presents a curated collection of research on ethnic entrepreneurship, focusing on the informal sector. The common theme of the expert contributions is that entrepreneurial motivation to start informal business is paramount to ethnic groups. In...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to implementing a company-wide management system (CWMS), utilising up-to-date methodologies of lean-six sigma in order to achieve high levels of business excellence. It builds the foundation for quality and...