Erik Hofmann: 12 books
The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide
A Roadmap to Operational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The importance of supply chain management has increased over the last few decades. Today, entire supply chains are competing with each other instead of individual companies. As such, supply chain management has become a way for companies to set themselves apart from competing companies and their supply...
Financing the End-to-end Supply Chain
A Reference Guide to Supply Chain Finance
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2016
Financing the End-to-End Supply Chain provides readers with a real insight into the increasingly important area of supply chain finance. It demonstrates the importance of the strategic relationship between the physical supply of goods and services and the associated financial flows. The book provides...
Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology
The Case of Reverse Securitisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book investigates how the Blockchain Technology (BCT) for Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programs allows businesses to come together in partnerships and accelerate cash flows throughout the supply chain. BCT promises to change the way individuals and corporations exchange value and information over...
Performance Measurement and Incentive Systems in Purchasing
More Than Just Savings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In recent years, purchasing performance measurement have steadily gained in importance in theory and practice. Yet, in many cases, the focus still remains on cost items, especially savings. Moreover, reported performance ratios in purchasing are frequently called into question in terms of their amount...
Capital Equipment Purchasing
Optimizing the Total Cost of CapEx Sourcing
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Compared to other main groups of procurement, capital equipment features numerous characteristics that significantly impact the purchasing process. The process of purchasing capital equipment therefore requires specific attention and above all a systematic approach. To overcome these challenges,...
Erfolgsmessung und Anreizsysteme im Einkauf
Den Mehrwert der Beschaffung professionell erheben, bewerten und darstellen
Language: German
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Die Bedeutung der Erfolgsmessung im Einkauf hat in den letzten Jahren in Wissenschaft und Praxis stetig zugenommen. Dennoch findet in vielen Fällen immer noch eine Fokussierung auf Kostengrößen – vor allem Savings – statt. Zudem werden die ausgewiesenen Erfolgskennzahlen des Einkaufs in Bezug...
Supply Chain Finance Solutions
Relevance - Propositions - Market Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
The book “Supply Chain Finance Solutions” offers orientation in the new discipline of Supply Chain Finance (SCF) by investigating the need for and nature of SCF, along with its characteristics and enablers. Due to the novelty of the Supply Chain Finance approach, there are still many knowledge...
Ways Out of the Working Capital Trap
Empowering Self-Financing Growth Through Modern Supply Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Especially in times of an economic boom following a crisis, companies have to deal with the phenomenon of the "working capital trap," which signifies a company's increasing need for financial liquidity in times of hindered access to debt capital, caused by the increasingly restrictive credit...
Erfolgsmessung beim Investitionsgütereinkauf
Eine alleinige Frage von Savings?
Language: German
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Aufgrund des steigenden Wettbewerbsdrucks und der Anforderung an den Einkauf seine Leistung darzulegen, gewinnt das Thema Erfolgsmessung im Einkauf immer mehr an Bedeutung. Obwohl dabei häufig noch immer monetäre Erfolgsgrößen (Savings) an erster Stelle stehen, rücken vermehrt auch nicht-monetäre...
Wege aus der Working Capital-Falle
Steigerung der Innenfinanzierungskraft durch modernes Supply Management
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In Zeiten wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs haben Unternehmen häufig mit der Working Capital-Falle zu kämpfen: Sie haben einen steigenden Liquiditätsbedarf bei gleichzeitig erschwertem Zugang zu Fremdkapital. Die Autoren zeigen, wie Unternehmen durch Ermittlung und Stärkung der Innenfinanzierung aus...
Investitionsgütereinkauf
Erfolgreiches Beschaffungsmanagement komplexer Leistungen
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Investitionsgüter weisen zahlreiche Besonderheiten auf, ihre Beschaffung bedarf daher spezifischer Aufmerksamkeit und vor allem einer systematischen Vorgehensweise. Die Autoren stellen ein ganzheitliches Prozessmodell sowie spezielle Instrumente und Methoden zum Investitionsgütereinkauf vor und...
by Ellen-Marie Forsberg, Clare Shelley-Egan, Erik Thorstensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation...