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Cost Management in Supply Chains
Stefan Seuring and Maria Goldbach
Physica-Verlag, L52.50
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More than 30 authors from lo countries contributed to this collection of papers on cost management and how it applies to the supply chain.
The main precept of Cost Management in Supply Chains is that supplier and customer-focused cost information enables firms to identify opportunities for cost efficiency in transactions with supply chain partners. The argument is that traditional cost management techniques, which focus on internal costs, are inadequate for supply chain purposes.
Instead,...