STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL CONCEPTS, AND FUNDAMENTALS OF DESIGN
Logistics, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Basic Definitions, Issues, and Challenges
Business Partner and Business Objects
Strategies in the Entrepreneurial Context
Performance Measurement
Scenarios and Exercises
Supply Chain Design
Ownership and Trade in a Supply Chain
Strategic Procurement and Levels of Cooperation
Designing Partnership Relationships
Facility Location Planning in Production, Distribution, and Service Networks
Sustainable Supply Chains
Supply Chain Risk Management
Scenarios and Exercises
Analysis and Fundamental Concepts in Logistics and Operations Management
Elements of Business Process Management
Push and Pull in the Design of Business Processes
Important Techniques of Business Process Analysis
Characteristic Features
Fundamental Concepts
Scenarios and Exercises
The MRP II / ERP Concept: Business Processes and Methods
Business Processes and Tasks in Planning & Control
Master Planning - Long-Term Planning
Introduction to Detailed Planning and Execution
Logistics Business Methods in Research and
Development
Current State of Knowledge of Logistics Management
Scenarios and Exercises
Manufacturing
Characterizing Lean / Just-in-Time and Repetitive Manufacturing
The Lean / Just-in-Time Concept
The Kanban Technique
The Cumulative Production Figures Principle
Comparison of Techniques of Materials Management
Scenarios and Exercises
Concepts for Product Families and One-of-a-Kind Production
Logistics Characteristics of a Product Variety Concept
Adaptive Techniques
Generative Techniques
Scenarios and Exercises
Concepts for the Process Industry
Characteristics of the Process Industry
Processor-Oriented Master and Order Data Management
Processor-Oriented Resource Management
Special Features of Long-Term Planning
Scenarios and Exercises
Software Used for Logistics Purposes: An Introduction
Contents of Logistics Software Packages
Factors for Successful Implementation of Logistics Software
Range of Implementation of Logistics Software
Summary
Keywords
Scenarios and Exercises
METHODS OF PLANNING & CONTROL IN COMPLEX LOGISTICS SYSTEMS
Demand and Demand Forecast
Overview of Forecasting Techniques
Historically Oriented Techniques for Constant Demand
Historically Oriented Techniques with Trend-Shaped Behavior
Future-Oriented Techniques
Using Forecasts in Planning
Scenarios and Exercises
Inventory Management and Stochastic Materials Management
Stores and Inventory Management
Usage Statistics, Analyses, and Classifications
Order Point Technique and Safety Stock Calculation
Batch or Lot Sizing
Summary
Keywords
Scenarios and Exercises
Deterministic Materials Management
Demand and A variable Inventory along the Time Axis
Deterministic Determination of Independent Demand
Deterministic Determination of Dependent Demand
Batch or Lot Sizing
Analyzing the Results of Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Scenarios and Exercises
Time Management and Scheduling
Elements of Time Management
Buffers and Queues
Scheduling of Orders and Scheduling Algorithms
Splitting, Overlapping, and Extended Scheduling Algorithms
Scenarios and Exercises
Capacity Management
Fundamentals of Capacity Management
Infinite Loading
Finite Loading
Rough-Cut Capacity Planning
Summary
Keywords
Scenarios and Exercises
Order Release and Control
Order Release
Shop Floor Control
Order Monitoring and Shop Floor Data Collection
Distribution Control
Scenarios and Exercises
Cost Estimating, Job-Order Costing, and Activity-Based Costing
Costs, Cost Elements, and Cost Structures
Cost Estimating
Job-Order Costing
Activity-Based Costing
Scenarios and Exercises
Representation and System Management of Logistic Objects
Order Data in Sales, Distribution, Production, and Procurement
The Master Data for Products and Processes
Extensions Arising from Variant-Oriented Concepts
Extensions Arising from Processor-Oriented Concepts
The Management of Product and Engineering Data
Summary
OVERVIEW OF FURTHER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE ENTERPRISE
Quality Management - TQM and Six Sigma
Quality: Concept and Measurement
Quality Management Tasks at the Operations Level
Quality Management Systems
Systems Engineering and Project Management
Systems Engineering
Project Management
Selected Sections of Information Management
Important Terms in Information Management
Modeling Enterprise Information Systems
Modeling Information Systems in the Data View and Object View
Each chapter concludes with a Summary and Keywords
