Collaborative Planning in Supply Chains: A Negotiation-Based Approach

✍ Scribed by Gregor Dudek (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book 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. It gives an introduction to collaborative planning, shows how it is embedded in the broader subject matter of supply chain management, and reviews findings of related literature. At its core, it provides a step-by-step description of a negotiation-based, practice-oriented approach to collaborative planning at the medium-term level of master planning between two supply-chain partners, a supplier and a single customer. Subsequently, this basic concept is extended to cover supply chains with multiple partners and planning on a rolling basis. Implications of collaborative planning on supply contracts are sketched out, and incentives for cooperative behavior by the supply-chain partners are analyzed by applying concepts of game theory. The second edition is completely reworked and updated and has become even more accessible.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-11
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Supply Chain Management and Collaborative Planning....Pages 5-24
Modeling Framework and Relevant Literature....Pages 25-56
Negotiation-Based Collaborative Planning between Two Partners....Pages 57-102
Extensions to the Basic Collaborative Planning Scheme....Pages 103-130
Implications on Supply Contracts and Partner Incentives....Pages 131-164
Computational Evaluation....Pages 165-213
Summary and Conclusions....Pages 215-217
Back Matter....Pages 1-14

✦ Subjects

Organization/Planning; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Operations Research, Mathematical Programming; Production/Logistics