In recent years, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become one of the most widely discussed issues on top management`s agenda. One essential precondition for the implementation of SCM concepts are powerful information systems. Many manufacturing companies deploy the logistics modules of the SAP...

The majority of RFID implementations can be traced back either to mandates issued by companies or institutions withsignificant market power like Wal-Mart or the U.S. Department of Defense, or to the replacement of existing Auto-IDtechnologies like barcodes. Only sporadically is RFID being used...

Supply chain management often requires the integration of inter-and-intra organizational relationships and coordination of different types of flows within the entire supply chain structure. Inter-company integration and coordination via information technology has become a key to improved supply...

Foreword by Prof. John L. Hennessy (Stanford University, California, USA) and Prof. David A. Patterson (University of California at Berkeley, USA). - Preface . - Introduction. - PART I - An Infl ection Point for Enterprise Applications . - 1 Desirability, Feasibility, Viability - The Impact of...

1. Introduction. Lloyd Strickland, Julia Weckend -- Section 1: Science. 2. Philosophy and science in Leibniz. Maria Rosa Antognazza -- 3. Between learned science and technical knowledge: Leibniz, Leeuwenhoek and the school for microscopists. Alessandro Becchi -- 4. Leibniz, organic matter and...