Cost Management in Supply Chains

Supply Chain Management and Cost Management are important developments helping companies to respond to increased global competition and demanding customer needs. Within the 23 chapters of the book, more than 35 authors provide insights into new concepts for cost control in supply chains. The frameworks presented are illustrated with case studies from the automotive, textile, white goods, and transportation industry as well as from retailing. Academics will benefit from the wide range of approaches presented, while practitioners will learn from the examples how their own company and the supply chains which they compete in, can be brought to lower costs and better performance.

Cost Management in Supply Chains — Different Research Approaches.- 1 — Developing Concepts for Cost Management in Supply Chains.- Supply Chain Costing — A Conceptual Framework.- Proactive Cost Management in Supply Chains.- A Framework for Extending Lean Accounting into a Supply Chain.- Managing Costs Across the Supply Chain.- Organizational Settings in Supply Chain Costing.- 2 — Applying Cost Management Instruments.- Supply Chain Target Costing — An Apparel Industry Case Study.- Integrating Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Assessment for Managing Costs and Environmental Impacts in Supply Chains.- Transfer Pricing in Supply Chains: An Exercise in Internal Marketing and Cost Management.- The Role of Finance in Supply Chain Management.- Non-Hierarchical Production Networks — Order Fulfillment and Costing.- Efficient Consumer Response — Increasing Efficiency through Cooperation.- Improving Supply Chain Productivity Through Horizontal Cooperation — the Case of Consumer Goods Manufacturers.- Cost Efficiency in Supply Chains — A Conceptual Discrepancy? Logistics Cost Management between Desire and Reality.- 3 — Building Cost Management Models.- Interdependencies between Supply Contracts and Transaction Costs.- Decision Support by Model Based Analysis of Supply Chains.- A New Customer-Oriented Methodology to Evaluate Supply Chain Lost Sales Costs Due to Stockout in Consumer Goods Sectors.- Global Supply Chain Management: Extending Logistics’ Total Cost Perspective to Configure Global Supply Chains.- Managing Stocks in Supply Chains: Modeling and Issues.- Some Optimization Tools to Improve Manufacturing and Supply Chain Performance.- An Options Approach to Enhance Economic Efficiency in a Dyadic Supply Chain.- 4 — Extending the Scope Beyond Cost.- UsingInternet-based Purchasing Tools in Supply Chains — Insights from a Retail Industry Analysis.- Complexity Management in the Supply Chain: Theoretical Model and Empirical Investigation in the Italian Household Appliance Industry.- Using the Balanced Scorecard for Interorganizational Performance Management of Supply Chains — A Case Study.- Editors.- Authors.