This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, IHNS 2010, held in Paderborn, Germany, April 21-22, 2010, under the title "Changing Paradigms: Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Logistics".

The 27 full and two short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 63 submissions. They are grouped in five parts on Supply Chain Management, Production Logistics and Industrial Engineering, Operations Research Techniques, Humanitarian Logistics, and Simulation. The presentation is completed by nine invited keynote papers from renowned international experts in these fields.

Autorentext
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Wilhelm Dangelmaier, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsinformatik am Heinz Nixdorf Institut der Universität Paderborn und Leiter des Fraunhofer Anwendungszentrums für logistikorientierte Betriebswirtschaft (ALB) in Paderborn.

Inhalt
Keynotes.- A Concept for an Accurate and Closely Coordinated Production.- A Mesoscopic Approach to the Simulation of Logistics Systems.- Development of a Simulation Model for Multimodal, Cross-Company Logistics Networks.- Building Blocks as an Approach for the Planning of Adaptable Production Systems.- Challenges for the Provision of Process Data for the Virtual Factory.- Application of Operations Research Techniques to the Redesign of the Distribution Systems.- Simulation in Production and Logistics: Trends, Solutions and Applications.- Logistics in the Context of Humanitarian Operations.- Sustainable Process Management - Status Quo and Perspectives.- Supply Chain Management.- A Model for Quantifying Impacts of Supply Chain Cost and Working Capital on the Company Value.- Assessing the Effects of Assortment Complexity in Consumer Goods Supply Chains.- Dynamic Supply Loops A Concept for Flexible and Faster Automotive Supply Network Management.- Development of a Lean Quality ManagementSystem: An Integrated Management System.- Integrated Adaptive Design and Planning of Supply Networks.- Lean Intra-corporate Supply Chain Management for Complex Organizations.- Up-to-Date Supply Chain Management: The Coordinated (S, R) Order-Up-to.- Production Logistics/Industrial Engineering.- Towards an Integrated Virtual Value Creation Chain in Sheet Metal Forming.- Using ISO 10303-224 for 3D Visualization of Manufacturing Features.- Combined Working Time Model Generation and Personnel Scheduling.- Knowledge Oriented Implementation of Collaborative Supply Chain Management.- Reference Modeling of an IT-Based Logistics System.- An Autonomous Control Concept for Production Logistics.- Towards Agile Business Processes Based on the Internet of Things.- Methods for the Calculation of CO2 Emissions in Logistics Activities.- Operations Research Techniques.- A p-Robust Capacitated Network Design Model with Facility Disruptions.- A Resource Based Mixed Integer Modelling Approach for Integrated Operational Logistics Planning.- Job Shop Scheduling with Buffer Constraints and Jobs Consuming Variable Buffer Space.- Maturity Progression Model for Sustainable Supply Chains.- Scenario Technique with Integer Programming for Sustainability in Manufacturing.- Modelling Post-carriage Transport Costs in Groupage Networks.- Discrete Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Including Deterioration and Perishability Constraints.- Humanitarian Logistics.- Developing and Maintaining Trust in Post-disaster Hastily Formed Networks.- Humanitarian Cluster Leads as Fourth-Party Logistics Providers.- Simulation.- An Efficient Heuristic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem.- Control of Disassembly Systems Based on the Division of Labour by Means of Dynamically Adapting Routing Plans.- Integrated Production Program and Human Resource Allocation Planning of Sequenced Production Lines with Simulated Assessment.- Simulation of Container Traffic Flows at a Metropolitan Seaport.- Simulation of ITSM Processesas Training Tool Set.