In the producer-seller relationship, the seller, besides his role of selling, is often in an ideal position to gather useful market information for the producer’s operations planning. Incentive alignment is critical to motivate both information-acquisition and sales efforts. Two popular contract forms are investigated. One is the forecast-based contract that requires the seller to submit a dema...

After-sales services bundled to products, respectively integrated Product-Service-Systems, have gained financial and strategic importance in manufacturing companies. Not considered as core competence in the beginning, the structures for delivering ASFS have grown over years, becoming more complex and less transparent. As industry still lacks tools and methods for ASFS network design and plannin...

Veränderte produktionslogistische Rahmenbedingungen und neue Ziele im Supply Chain Management (SCM) erfordern ein Redesign aktueller Supply Chain Planning (SCP)-Systeme. In-Memory-basierte betriebliche Informationssysteme bieten viele Vorteile und können bei der Definition neuer SCM-Systeme zugrunde gelegt werden. Allerdings sind noch Defizite in der Datenorganisation und den User Interfaces zu...

According to Deloitte Consulting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are packaged business application software suites that allow an organization to automate and integrate the majority of its business processes, share common data and practices across the entire enterprise, and produce and access information in a real-time environment. The scope of an ERP solution includes financials, hu...

We study stochastic inventory planning with lost sales, where contrary to classical inventory theory, the knowledge of the demand distribution is not available a priori. While the manager observes the sales quantities in each period, lost sales are unobservable, i.e., demand data is censored. The decision in each period depends only on historical sales data. Excess inventory is either perishabl...

We study stochastic inventory planning with lost sales and instantaneous replenishment, where contrary to the classical inventory theory, the knowledge of the demand distribution is not available. Furthermore, we observe only the sales quantity in each period, and lost sales are unobservable, that is, demand data are censored. The manager must make an ordering decision in each period based only...

Virtual enterprises and virtual supply chain concepts have been presented to propose solution for a seamless integration and data exchange between enterprises in the supply chain. Cloud computing technology enables centralized data storage and processing for operations and supply chain. This paper presents a prototype implementation of cloud-based virtual supply chain. The proposed solution off...

This work has as basis subjects related to resource planning tools such Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Enterprise Resources (ERP) software Lean. In this context, the guiding question is: How could human materias resources be best optimized deliver an operation with less safet risks, emissions, suceptability market fluctuation condistions, profitability competivitivty for both operator...

The use of supply chain management and optimisation is of increasing importance in the forest industry. The overall wood-flow starts with standing trees in forests and continues with harvesting, bucking, sorting, transportation to terminals, sawmills, pulp mills, paper mills and heating plants, conversion into products such as pulp, paper, lumber, and ends at different customers. Many planning ...

background good drug regulation requires an effective system for monitoring and inspection of manufacturing and sales units. in india, despite widespread agreement on this principle, ongoing shortages of drug inspectors have been identified by national committees since 1975. the growth of india’s pharmaceutical industry and its large export market makes the problem more acute.   methods the foc...