Big Data und Data Science sind Trends, die sowohl in der Wissenschaft als auch in Unternehmen auf grosses Interesse stossen. Dieses essential zeigt einen konzeptionellen Rahmen auf, um die Grundlagen von Big Data und Data Science besser zu verstehen. Einkaufsentscheider und Einkaufsorganisationen koennen dann aufbauend auf der Beschaffungsdigitalisierung sowie weiteren Datenquellen ein Big Data Warehouse konzipieren, welches die Voraussetzung schafft, um wichtige Beschaffungsprobleme zu loesen. Analytische Methoden werden genauso beleuchtet, wie neue Fahigkeiten in bereichsubergreifenden Teams. Abschliessend werden 30 konkrete Anwendungsfalle von Big Data fur die strategische Beschaffung vorgestellt.

Supply chains are the lifeblood of any business, bridging the distance between producer and customer, supply and demand. However, for a long time leaders have considered supply chain management to be a support, cost-added activity, something best kept out of sight and out of mind. Instead, this guide's purpose is to convince business leaders that supply chain management can be used as a business leverage for value creation and competitive advantage. Now more than ever, agile and resilient supply chains are vital in coping with uncertain markets and volatile world events, driving sustainable development, boosting current business models, and even simulating the creation of new ones. This book sets out the terms and paradigms necessary for an understanding of the supply chain, illuminates the types of value supply chain management can provide to businesses, and covers the solutions that business leaders can implement to reap the benefits of a value-creation supply chain approach. Next Generation Supply Chains breaks down this complex, nuanced field with helpful explanations, detailed diagrams and testimonies from leading businesses, laying out why an understanding of supply chain management is integral to any business leader. Written by Michel Fender, an expert with over thirty years' industry experience in advisory, training, technical and management capacities, this is an essential guide to the subject.

Making Sense of Managerial Economics provides students with a foundational knowledge base in managerial economics, the study of how managers can leverage economics in a way that best reaches their goals by optimizing resources. Readers develop a higher level of understanding of microeconomic principles. The text also demonstrates how the mathematical assumptions presented in the study of microeconomics can be attained in the real world. Opening chapters discuss marginal analysis and optimal decision-making, linear regression and statistical methods, and the laws of supply and demand. Students learn how to perform the required math to institute price ceilings and floors, key facts about consumer behavior, and the traits of social economic efficiency. Additional topics include organizing for production, marketing in the competitive environment, output and associated costs, and the regulation and deregulation of competition. Closing chapters address risk and uncertainty, capital, and pricing. A comprehensive yet accessible resource, Making Sense of Managerial Economics is well suited for introductory courses in managerial economics.

IT Use In Supply Chain And Business Processes makes the readers familiar with the processes of supply chain and other related to the businesses and explains them the incorporation of it in these processes to enhance their effectivity. This book also discusses about the meaning of supply chain and business processes, the integration of technology in these processes and its need in supply chain management, the management of supply chain information, e-supply chain management and networking in supply chain management. It gives the readers the needed information on the use of IT in the supply chain processes and inform them about the various technologies that help in the process of supply chain.

Efficient supply chain management is essential for maintaining successful workflows within companies. A lack of decisional, organizational, and information integration can lead to increased cost for a business due to missed opportunities, delays, inefficient inventory decisions, poor capacity allocation, and misuse of resources. Companies must employ collaborative practices across all functions of the supply chain in order to avoid costly mishaps. Hierarchical Planning and Information Sharing Techniques in Supply Chain Management is an essential reference source that discusses information exchanges and approaches of coordination related to operation planning for a better understanding of how hierarchical planning techniques and principles can contribute to the effective and efficient management and planning of supply chain activities. Featuring research on topics such as competitive advantages, information sharing, and transport management, this book is ideally designed for managers, academicians, and practitioners in the field of supply chain management, operations management, logistics, and operations research.

The application of sustainability practices at the system level begins with the supply chain. In the business realm, incorporating such practices allows organizations to redesign their operations more effectively. Emerging Applications in Supply Chains for Sustainable Business Development is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the models, strategies, and analyses that are essential for developing and managing a sustainable supply chain. While highlighting topics such as agile manufacturing and the world food crisis, this publication is ideally designed for business managers, academicians, business practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students seeking current research on sustainable supply chain management.

How do international organizations procure goods, services and works to carry out their institutional mission? How does this procurement activity affect individuals? Does the procurement relationship between international organizations and private subjects bring an even distribution of rights and duties? Are international organizations accountable to private subjects and states when allocating their resources through procurement? The book explores the complex phenomenon of procurement by international organizations from the point of view of the relationship between international organizations and private subjects. It provides, for the first time, a systematization and conceptualization of the emerging rules and practices of procurement by international organizations. It also identifies the international political dynamics and interplay of interests underlying these rules and practices. In doing so, it shows how these dynamics shape the exercise of international public authority over private subjects, and the scope of private subjects' rights vis-a-vis international organizations.