Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

by Cheng, T. C. Edwin; Choi, Tsan-ming

• ISBN13: 9783642043123
• ISBN10: 3642043127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Quick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven business strategy in which supply chain members work together to react quickly to volatile market demand. Nowadays, with advances in information technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new challenges and opportunities arise for the application of QR. This handbook explores QR extensively with a view to discovering innovative QR measures that can help tackle the observed and emerging challenges. The book is organized into four parts, which include chapters on analytical modeling and analyses, information technologies, cases, reviews, and applications. This handbook provides new analytical and empirical results with valuable insights, which will not only help supply chain agents to better understand the latest applications of QR in business, but also help practitioners and researchers to know how to improve the effectiveness of QR using innovative methods.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Evolution of Quick Response Programs	p. 3
Impact of Information Systems on Quick Response Programs	p. 23
Fast Fashion: Achieving Global Quick Response (GQR) in the Internationally Dispersed Clothing Industry	p. 37
Modelling and Analysis of QR Programmes
Procurement Flexibility under Price Uncertainty	p. 63
The Value of Information in Quick Response Supply Chains: An Assortment Planning View	p. 91
Improving Revenue Management: A Real Option Approach	p. 123
Supply Chain Scheduling under Quick Response	p. 141
Dynamic Pricing of Seasonal Product without Replenishment: A Discrete Time Analysis	p. 159
Supplier Selection in Make-to-Order Manufacturing	p. 181
Enabling Technologies for QR Programmes
Enhancing Responsiveness for Mass Customization Strategies through the Use of Rapid Manufacturing Technologies	p. 205
Innovative Process in E-Commerce Fashion Supply Chains	p. 227
The Next Generation Demand Network in Quick Response Systems: Intelligent Products, Packet Switching and Dynamic Information	p. 243
RFID's Applications in Quick Response Systems	p. 265
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems for the Textiles and Clothing Industry	p. 279
Simulation-based Optimization of Inventory Model with Products Substitution	p. 297
Applications and Case Studies
Fast Fashion: Quantifying the Benefits	p. 315
Divide and Conquer: From MTO to ATO/MTO	p. 331
Quick Response Practices in the Hong Kong Apparel Industry	p. 355
Efficient Response Systems with RFID Technology: Cases in China	p. 369
The Emergence of the Fast Fashion Business Model and Imposed Quick Response Challenges for Chinese Fabric Manufacturers	p. 387
Innovative Mass Customization in the Fashion Industry	p. 423
Improving Allocation of Inventory for Quick Response to Customer Orders: A Case Study	p. 455
Index	p. 465
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