Recent supply chain concepts are characterized by attempts to reduce inventory and to simultaneously increase flexibility and reliability. The analysis of recent SC concepts shows that transport actors are often not integrated members of these SC concepts. Julia Bendul exploits this imperfection for the integration of combined road and rail transport into supply chain concepts - even for distances below 100 km. Supported by a simulation study the author shows that the tight integration of material and information flows opens up time buffers and increases coordination flexibility, which is necessary for combined transport integration. Therefore, she provides processes, methods and instruments for 1) planning and control, 2) network and organizational structure, 3) process design, 4) information & communication technology as well as 5) material flow structure, which support the combined transport integration into supply chain concepts.

Autorentext

Julia Bendul was a research assistant at the Chair of Logistics Management at the University of St.Gallen. Before joining the Jacobs University Bremen as Assistant Professor of Network Optimization in Production and Logistics in 2013 she was working as a Business Consultant at an automobile manufacturer.

Zusammenfassung
The book focuses on the context of social and political keitsdiskussion sustainability and the growing difficulties in road freight with the question of how rail services can be practically integrated into the value network of industrial and commercial enterprises. The integration of the material and information flows to the large number of legally independent actors is the focus.

Inhalt
Integration of Combined Transport into Sypply Chain Concepts from a Performance Perspective: Need for Action.- Problem Concretisation: SCP Orientation Encourages the Integration of CT into SC Concepts.- CT as an Element of SC Concepts.- Conceptual Research Framework of Performance-oriented CT Integration into SC Concepts.-Performance-oriented Integration of Combined Line Transport into a Lean SC: A Simulation Study.- Implications for Science and Practice.