Cheng T.C.E., Choi T.-M. (Eds.) Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Springer – 2010, 469 pages
ISBN: 3642043127Quick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven business strategy in which supply chain members work together to react quickly to volatile market demand. Nowadays, with advances in information technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new challenges and opportunities arise for the application of QR. This handbook explores QR extensively with a view to discovering innovative QR measures that can help tackle the observed and emerging challenges. The book is organized into four parts, which include chapters on analytical modeling and analyses, information technologies, cases, reviews, and applications. This handbook provides new analytical and empirical results with valuable insights, which will not only help supply chain agents to better understand the latest applications of QR in business, but also help practitioners and researchers to know how to improve the effectiveness of QR using innovative methods.Part I Introduction
The Evolution of Quick Response Programs
Matthew J. Drake and Kathryn A. Marley
Impact of Information Systems on Quick Response Programs
Robert Setaputra, Xiaohang Yue, and Dongqing Yao
Fast Fashion: Achieving Global Quick Response (GQR)
in the Internationally Dispersed Clothing Industry
Bart L. MacCarthy and P.G.S.A. Jayarathne
Part II Modelling and Analysis of QR Programmes
Procurement Flexibility under Price Uncertainty
Qi Feng and Suresh P. Sethi
The Value of Information in Quick Response Supply Chains:
An Assortment Planning View.
Hajnalka Vaagen and Stein W. Wallace
Improving Revenue Management: A Real Option Approach
Wai-Ki Ching, Xun Li, Tak Kuen Siu, and ZhenyuWu
Supply Chain Scheduling under Quick Response
Xiang Li and Yongjian Li
Dynamic Pricing of Seasonal Product without Replenishment:
A Discrete Time Analysis
Zhongjun Tian
Supplier Selection in Make-to-Order Manufacturing
Jinfeng Yue, Yu Xia, Thuhang Tran, and Bintong Chen
Part III Enabling Technologies for QR Programmes
Enhancing Responsiveness for Mass Customization Strategies
through the Use of Rapid Manufacturing Technologies
HartantoWong and Daniel Eyers
Innovative Process in E-Commerce Fashion Supply Chains
Margaret Bruce and Lucy Daly
The Next Generation Demand Network in Quick Response
Systems: Intelligent Products, Packet Switching and
Dynamic Information
Jeff Barker and Gavin Finnie
RFID’s Applications in Quick Response Systems
Xiaowei Zhu, Samar K. Mukhopadhyay, and Xiaohang Yue
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems for the Textiles
and Clothing Industry
Patrick C.L. Hui, Kidith Tse, Tsan-Ming Choi, and Na Liu
Simulation-based Optimization of Inventory Model with
Products Substitution
Di Huang, Qiu Hong Zhao, and Cheng Cheng Fan
Part IV Applications and Case Studies
Fast Fashion: Quantifying the Benefits
Warren H. Hausman and John S. Thorbeck
Divide and Conquer: From MTO to ATO/MTO
Ying Wei, Frank Y. Chen, Mark Lee, Houmin Yan, Kenneth Kong,
and Chi Ho Ng
Quick Response Practices in the Hong Kong Apparel Industry
Pui-Sze Chow, Tsan-Ming Choi, T.C.E. Cheng,
and Shuk-Ching Liu
Efficient Response Systems with RFID Technology:
Cases in China
HongweiWang, Shuang Chen, Yong Xie, and Qing Ding
Contents ix
The Emergence of the Fast Fashion Business Model
and Imposed Quick Response Challenges for Chinese Fabric
Manufacturers
and Carl A. Lawrence
Innovative Mass Customization in the Fashion Industry
Ho-Ting Yeung, Tsan-Ming Choi, and Chun-Hung Chiu
Improving Allocation of Inventory for Quick Response
to Customer Orders: A Case Study
Tej S. Dhakar, Charles P. Schmidt, and David M. Miller