Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Motives -- Consumer Markets in Closed-Loop Supply Chains -- Market Behavior Torwards Remanufactured Products -- Assessing Consumers' Valuations of Socially Responsible Products with Controlled Experiments -- Profit-Driven Environmental...

The Role of the Internet and e-Commerce in the Supply Chain -- Supply Chain Integration Over the Internet -- Customer Service Models for Bricks, Clicks and in Between -- B2B Markets: Procuremen and Supplier Risk Management in E-Business -- Supply Chain Coordination Models and Applications --...

Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the...

Julia Wolf investigates the theoretical aspect of SCM by analyzing the evolution SCM research has undergone and by assessing the question whether SCM research can be considered a scientific paradigm as of today.

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. This title presents an introduction to collaborative planning and shows how it is embedded in the...

Supply Chain Planning and Coordination -- Coordination Mechanisms for Supply Chain Planning -- New Coordination Schemes -- New Coordination Mechanisms -- Computational Tests of Coordination Schemes -- Summary and Outlook