[...]... and coordination of supply chains will generally not be covered in this work For an overview of specific inter-organizational supply chain management tasks 2.1 Supply Chain Management and Production Network Design 9 the reader can refer to textbooks such as Chopra and Meindl (2004) or Simchi-Levi et al (2003) A specific discussion of inter-organizational aspects of supply chain management and further... for future research 2 Production Network Design and Specialty Chemicals 2.1 Supply Chain Management and Production Network Design 2.1.1 Supply Chains and Production Networks Many different definitions of the term supply chain exist in literature (cf Ganeshan et al 1999, p 842) Christopher (2005, p 17) defines the supply chain as a "…network of organizations that are involved, through upstream and... referred to as inter-organizational supply chain (cf Stadtler 2005, pp 9-10; Shah 2005, p 1226) The different definitions also reflect the fact that, as explained by Rudberg and Olhager (2003), with operations management and logistics management two major research tracks merged different perspectives into what is nowadays referred to as supply chain management Operations management, taking an intra-company... Production Network Design and Specialty Chemicals Fig 2 Global supply chain network Supply chains technically range from the extraction of raw materials to the final customer and are usually spread across several companies Narrowly defined, the supply chain is limited to elements operated by an individual company (intra-organizational supply chain) , whereas a broad definition also includes elements operated... op- 2.1 Supply Chain Management and Production Network Design 13 timization software (cf Fleischmann et al 2006, p 8) Additionally, the data integration with the ERP system, a key advantage of using APS instead of standalone tools, is rather low for strategic network design (cf Goetschalckx and Fleischmann 2005, p 133) Procurement Production Distribution long-term Strategic Network Design Strategic. .. importance for the company While some authors distinguish only between strategic and operational planning, the framework most commonly employed - originally proposed by Anthony (1965) - includes tactical planning as an intermediate level In the context of supply chain management, the different planning levels can be defined as follows:2 Strategic planning focuses on creating and sustaining the conditions... there are strong interdependencies between strategic, tactical and operational planning, in practice planning processes generally take place in a hierarchical fashion with strategic planning forming the basis of the different operational plans (cf Hahn 1992, col 1988-1991; Hax and Meal 1975, p 54) In the field of supply chain planning first models combining strategic and operational planning have been... desirable because strategic, tactical and operational planning have to deal with different degrees of uncertainty, different planning horizons and corresponding planning frequencies, different aggregation levels and ultimately decisions are of different degrees of importance Taking the latter position, this work focuses on strategic supply chain planning which is also referred to as supply network design... synonymously 2.1.3 Production Network Design and Advanced Planning Systems According to Fleischmann and Meyr (2003, p 457) adequate planning systems for supply chain management require two major elements: An integral planning of a company's entire supply chain including at least suppliers and customers while taking into account the interdependencies between the various activities A true optimization of... can for example be found in Kilger and Reuter (2005), Kuhn and Hellingrath (2002) and Chen (2003) with the latter focusing on the benefits of information sharing between supply chain partners 2.1.2 Production Network Design Supply chain management has to address diverse issues ranging from facility location to detailed production and procurement decisions (cf Fleischmann et al 2005a, pp 86-92) To reduce . 2.1 Supply Chain Management and Production Network Design 2.1.1 Supply Chains and Production Networks Many different definitions of the term supply chain. work. For an overview of specific inter-organizational supply chain management tasks 2.1 Supply Chain Management and Production Network Design 9 the reader