Contents Part I Basics of Supply Chain Management 1 Supply Chain Management: An Overview 3 Hartmut Stadtler 1.1 Definitions 3 1.2 Building Blocks ...

Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are important concepts in order to organize and optimize the flow of materials, information and financial funds. This book, already in its fifth edition, gives a broad and up-to-date overview of the...

Preface -- Introduction (Hartmut Stadtler, Christopher Haub) - Part I -- 1 The Frutado Case 11 (Bernhard Fleischmann) -- 2 Hierarchical Planning and the Supply Chain Planning Matrix (Hartmut Stadtler, Bernhard Fleischmann) -- 3 SAP® APO - Module Matrix and General Principles (Christopher...

Supply chains consist of all processes which are needed in order to supply customers with the required products. Traditionally, supply chain management decisions are based on the economic performance of the involved parties. But in recent years, other criteria, such as quality, flexibility or...