Supply Chain Performance Management

Globalization, shorter product life cycles, and new information technologies - competition takes no longer between companies, but between entire supply chains.

Hence there is a need for a synchronized measurement and improvement of supply chain performance occuring, which is a complex construct overall. Supply chain performance management encompasses therefore all methodologies, metrics, processes, systems, and even software applicable to this task.

This volume edited by Wolfgang Kersten Thorsten Blecker, and Matthias Meyer provides a valuable insight into

• Approaches for a supply chain performance management
• Holistic considerations of supply and inventory management
• Concrete cases of performance driven supply chain optimization
• Novel developments in the field of logistics and supply chain management

With this book you will gain central insights how to measure and improve the performance of logistics and supply chains by the mean of different strategies, processes, and metrics of an interorganizational performance management.