Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning Concepts, Models, Soft
Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are important concepts in order to organize and optimize the flow of goods, materials, information and funds. This book, already in its fourth edition, gives
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Hartmut Stadtler · Christoph Kilger Editors
Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning Concepts, Models, Software, and Case Studies
4th Edition
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Professor Dr. Hartmut Stadtler University of Hamburg WISO-Faculty Von-Melle-Park 5 20146 Hamburg Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-74511-2
Dr. Christoph Kilger J&M Management Consulting AG Willy-Brandt-Platz 5 68161 Mannheim Germany [email protected]
e-ISBN 978-3-540-74512-9
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-74512-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007936675 c 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Production: LE-TEX Jelonek, Schmidt & Vöckler GbR, Leipzig Cover-design: WMX Design GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper 987654321 springer.com
Preface Hartmut Stadtler1 , Christoph Kilger2 1 2
University of Hamburg, Institute for Logistics and Transport, Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146 Hamburg, Germany J & M Management Consulting AG, Willy-Brandt-Platz 5, 68161 Mannheim, Germany
Preface to the Fourth Edition The hype is over - and this is fine! Advanced Planning Systems (APS) have become a mature technology in the past years. Investments in APS have to undergo the same standard software evaluation and financial appraisal process as any other investment. It no longer suffices to argue that “we have to be at the front edge of technology”. And still there is a large number of rewarding applications for APS. Three of these have become new case studies in this fourth edition. Unfortunately, a fourth case study has been withdrawn in the last minute because the client company regards its APS solution a key element of becoming the leader in its sector - expertise which they do not want to share with their competitors. A second development to mention is the tendency to avoid the term “System” in AP”S”. Instead some prefer the term Advanced Planning Modules which better reflects the capability to combine some of its modules with other software components (e.g. for Supply Chain Event Management) to form an individual Supply Chain (SC) solution. However, the information flows among modules described in this book now even become more important for the quality of the SC solution generated. Hence, there is no reason for us
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