Demand fulfillment in multi-stage customer hierarchies /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sebastian Vogel ; foreword by Prof. Dr. Herbert Meyr
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xx, 377 pages) :
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illustrations
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Produktion und Logistik
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Includes bibliographical references
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Customer segments form multi-level hierarchical trees in many supply chain planning problems. Sebastian Vogel provides a comprehensive formal overview of such multi-stage customer hierarchies and characterizes the corresponding demand fulfillment problem. Here, the process of quota reservation and allocation planning usually has to be performed iteratively. This is particularly difficult for decentral planners who have only limited information transparency. A new superior allocation scheme for decentral decision makers is derived which exploits the level of customer heterogeneity in sub-trees