Comprehensive overview

New approaches and developments

Case studies and surveys from various industrial backgrounds

Includes supplementary material: [...]

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.