Collaborative planning in supply chains : a negotiation-based approach

The 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. The major contribution of this work is to provide a process model concerned with the decision making and negotiation aspects of collaborative planning. Taking technological means for data exchange as a given, it sketches a detailed picture of a collaborative planningprocess at the medium- term level of master planning, assuming that mathematical programming models are used by all partners. Building of the planning process, it indicates how financial outcomes and partner incentives are affected by the negotiations of supply quantitiesbetween buyers and suppliers, and demonstrates how supply contract terms can be adapted in order to establish a win- win situation for all partners. TOC:Introduction.- Supply Chain Management and Collaborative Planning.- Modeling Framework and Review of Relevant Literature.- Negotiation-Based Collaborative Planning Between two Partners.- Extensions to the Basic Collaborative Planning Scheme.- Implications on Supply Contracts and Partner Incentives.- Computational Evaluation.- Summary and Conclusions.- References.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Symbols