The economical success of ship yards in Europe depends strongly on their capability to deliver their products on time. Big potentials in optimization exist in decreasing the through put time, using production methods in a more systematical way. The manufacturing control model describes a...

The study at hand examines the strategic perspective of the emerging phenomenon of performance-oriented systems, e.g. car-sharing or cloud computing, in the mobility, IT, energy and chemical industries. In all four industries, firms have likewise implemented a novel system-based offering...

Innovation is increasingly considered as an enabler of business competitive advantage. More and more organizations focus on satisfying their consumer s demand of innovative and qualitative products and services by applying both technology-supported and non technology-supported innovative methods...

Today´s demand patterns constantly claim for greener products from more sustainable supply chains. Handling these customer needs puts a constant pressure on the players: Ecological and social issues arise additionally to challenges like technology management and efficiency enhancement....

ERP-Implementierungen sind komplexe und kritische Vorhaben in Unternehmen. Bereits seit den 1990er Jahren wird vielerorts von misslungenen ERP-Einführungsprojekten berichtet. Einschlägige Studien untersuchen mögliche Ursachen und Hintergründe für die zahlreichen Misserfolge bei...