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In: Issues in Supply Chain Scheduling and Contracting

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  • Christian Alexander Ullrich

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Since the 1980s, strategic supply chain management issues, such as the selection of production sites, out- or offshore-sourcing decisions, and long-term business relationships, have always attracted a high level of interest in literature (Thomas and Griffin, 1996). Comparatively little attention has been paid to short-term problems at an operational level. Assuming an enormous cost-cutting potential, Thomas and Griffin (1996) therefore requested the development of approaches to improve the cross-company coordination of logistics operations. In response to this call for research, Hall and Potts (2003), Kreipl and Pinedo (2004), and Agnetis et al. (2006) established Supply Chain Scheduling as a new field of study. Supply Chain Scheduling deals with the coordination of the machine and delivery schedules of two or more supply chain stages. The objective is to enhance the supply chain’s competitiveness by improving overall performance measured in the total logistics costs, for example.

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  • Christian Alexander Ullrich, 2014. "Outline," Springer Books, in: Issues in Supply Chain Scheduling and Contracting, chapter 0, pages 1-4, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-658-03769-7_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-03769-7_1
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