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Remanufacturing has received increasing attention in the recent past as more companies engage in product recovery management. Ian M. Langella examines the planning of disassembly for remanufacturing of used products, yielding components which are reassembled into as good as new  items. Through a thorough analysis of the underlying planning problem, fundamental insights are attained and heuristic solution methods are developed and tested. Although the heuristics exhibit good performance, they remain simple enough to be applied to industrial-sized problems. The author considers both settings where yields are deterministic and stochastic and where the amount of returned products is constrained.

Production management --- productieorganisatie --- logistiek

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Especially in times of an economic boom following a crisis, companies have to deal with the phenomenon of the "working capital trap," which signifies a company's increasing need for financial liquidity in times of hindered access to debt capital, caused by the increasingly restrictive credit approval processes of financial institutions. As a consequence of cost savings, this situation is often reinforced by a low level of inventory. This book takes up the problem and shows ways of escaping the "trap" by identifying and strengthening in-house financing potential. First, different operating ratios will be introduced. These refer to the amount of capital committed to the flow of goods and to the amount of in-house financing possible. Subsequently, methods for consolidating in-house financing that are affected by procurement processes will be presented from the company's and the supply chain's perspective. From a company's perspective, the methods for consolidating the amount of in-house financing over the following topics: ¢             The Management of Payment Terms ¢             Inventory Management ¢             Product Group and Supplier Management From the supply chain's perspective, the following methods for extending the possible amount of in-house financing will be discussed: ¢             Finance-Oriented Supply Chain Sourcing ¢             Supply Chain-Oriented Supplier Financing ¢             Collaborative Cash-to-Cash Management ¢             Collaborative Cash Pooling and Netting ¢             Supply Chain Financing Platforms The conceptual models will be clarified using a practical example from the automobile industry. Finally, the "Procurement Value Added" (PVA©) approach will be presented, a concept that measures the contribution of procurement to the company's success.

Production management --- bedrijfsplanning --- bedrijfsorganisatie

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The link between strategies and control systems and how it ultimately af fects the competitiveness of firms is an area that is attracting the atten tion of practitioners and scholars. There is a need to discuss which combi nations of strategies and control systems can be assumed to contribute to competitive strength. In this book we have chosen to highlight the role of management control and manufacturing control in this respect. For a long time these two types of control systems were regarded as more or less separate subjects of research and study. However, the differences between management control and manufacturing control are diminishing, a ten dency that we support. The book is written in this spirit of approval. The models and hypotheses advanced in the book were developed over a long period of time. They are based on research and have been published and otherwise presented in a variety of different circumstances (see, for example, Jansson et al., 2000; Kald et al., 2000; Nilsson, 1994, 1997, 2002; Rapp et al., 2000). Our colleagues have stimulated our thinking and have contributed to further refinement of the thoughts presented in the book. We would like to thank Professor Leif Appelgren, Professor Thomas Falk, Professor Nils Goran Olve, Professor Rolf Rundfelt, Professor Bengt Saven, Associate professor Vivian Vimarlund and Assistant professor Alf Westelius for their valuable comments and inspiration.

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Operations Research, the science of better, is a discipline that permanently produces and applies advanced analytical techniques to help make better decisions and to solve problems. This volume presents state-of-the-art models, algorithms, and applications of quantitative methods in management and economics. The papers have been contributed by disciples, colleagues, scientific companions, and friends of Klaus Neumann on the occasion of his emeritation. They are clustered into four parts, focusing on " optimization issues, " applications of Operations Research in production and service management, " applications of Operations Research in logistics, and " interdisciplinary approaches.

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Companies are increasingly sourcing services from third party providers on a global level. Nevertheless, the academic research on phenomena such as offshoring, international purchasing and the sourcing of certain specific categories is still scarce. Lydia Bals provides terminological clarity regarding the field of offshoring. She identifies different types of offshoring, concluding that the buy option of offshore outsourcing versus hybrid or make options is directly related to purchasing. Her in-depth analysis specifically focuses on the sourcing of marketing services. In this context, the investigations of purchasing/marketing integration provide a conceptual model of barriers to purchasing involvement in sourcing of services. Moreover, the author seeks to shed light on issues of providing incentives for advertising agencies from an agency theory perspective. The case study illustrates that the measures taken against an initially problematic situation in the purchase of advertising agency services correspond with the theoretically identified solution mechanisms.

Production management --- productieorganisatie --- logistiek