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 concepts underlying APS. Special emphasis is given to modeling supply chains and implementing APS successfully in industry. Understanding is enhanced by several case studies covering APS from various software vendors. The fifth edition contains updated material, rewritten chapters and an additional case study.

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This proceedings volume contains a selection of 97 papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2001), the Annual Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). The contributions cover the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of Operations Research and present recent advances in theory, development of methods, and applications in practice. Subjects covered are Transport and Traffic, Energy and Environment, Quantitative Methods in Marketing, Production and Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Finance and Banking and Insurance, Scheduling and Project Planning, Operations Research in the Health Service, Continuous Optimization, Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Optimization and Simulation, Econometrics and Statistics and Mathematical Economics, Decision Theory, Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic, Information and Decision Support Systems and Operations Research in the Internet, Didactics of OR and Public Understanding.

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 concepts underlying APS. Special emphasis is given to modeling supply chains and implementing APS successfully in industry. Understanding is enhanced by several case studies covering APS from various software vendors. The fifth edition contains updated material, rewritten chapters and an additional case study.

Einfuhrung.- Grundlagen des Supply Chain Management.- Supply Chain Management - Ein UEberblick.- Analyse der Supply Chain.- Supply Chain Typen.- Advanced Planning.- Konzeption von Advanced Planning Systemen.- Struktur der Advanced Planning Systeme.- Strategic Network Design.- Demand Planning.- Master Planning.- Demand Fulfillment & ATP.- Production Planning & Scheduling.- Purchasing & Material Requirements Planning.- Distribution & Transport Planning.- Koordination und Integration.- Collaborative Planning.- Einfuhrung von Advanced Planning Systemen.- Das Aufsetzen eines Supply Chain Projektes.- Der Auswahlprozess.- Der Implementierungsprozess.- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.- Prognoseverfahren.- Lineare und Gemischt-Ganzzahlige Optimierung.- Genetische Algorithmen.- Constraint Programming.

Die Idee der hierarchischen Produktionsplanung (HPP) besteht in der hierarchischen Zerlegung der Planungsaufgabe in relativ leicht loesbare Teilaufgaben, die durch Kopplungen verknupft zu einer moeglichst guten Loesung der Gesamtplanungsaufgabe fuhren. Als ein erster Schritt in Richtung auf eine noch ausstehende Theorie der HPP wird zunachst ein UEberblick uber 17 HPP-Systeme aus der Literatur gegeben und daraus eine Systematik dieser Systeme, Kriterien zu ihrer Beurteilung und Hinweise zu ihrer Konstruktion abgeleitet. Aufbauend auf der entwickelten Systematik stellt der Autor ein fur einen namhaften Lebensmittelhersteller konzipiertes zweistufiges HPP-System vor. Fur die losweise Fertigung wird gezeigt, dass sich die Ergebnisse eines rein linearen Planungsmodells, basierend auf den allgemein ublichen effektiven Bedarfen, i.a. nicht in einen zulassigen Ablaufplan umsetzen lassen. Zur Behebung dieser Unzulanglichkeiten wird die Verwendung des effektiven Losgroessenbedarfes vorgeschlagen und dessen UEberlegenheit gegenuber dem herkoemmlichen Ansatz anhand einer rollenden hierarchischen Planung mit betrieblichen Daten demonstriert.