Book Details

Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-3-540-24814-9

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Supply Chain Management concerns organizational aspects of integrating,legally separated firms as well as coordinating material,and information flows within a production-distribution network, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems being used for,transaction handling and order execution in most firms today have,been supplemented by Advanced Planning Systems (APS) for coordinating flows, exploiting bottlenecks and keeping due dates.This book provides insights regarding the concepts underlying APS. Special emphasis is given to modelling supply chains and implementing APS in industry successfully. Understanding is enhanced through the use of case studies as well as an introduction to the solution algorithms used.


Subject: Business and Economics, Advanced Planning, Advanced Planning Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Resources Planning, Hierarchical Planning, Optimization, Planning, SCM, Supply Chain Management, Distribution, Management, Modeling, Organization, production, Sup