1. Supply chain planning in the German automotive industry

   • Herbert Meyr

   OriginalPaper Pages: 447 - 470

2. Hierarchical supply chain planning using artificial neural networks to anticipate base-level outcomes

   • Jens Rohde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 471 - 492

3. Coordinated order and production policies in supply chains

   • Eric Sucky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 493 - 520

4. Deriving inventory-control policies with genetic programming

   • Peer Kleinau
   • Ulrich W. Thonemann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 546

5. Evaluation of divergent N-echelon (s,nQ)-policies under compound renewal demand

   • Gudrun P. Kiesmüller
   • Ton G. de Kok
   • Peter J. M. van Laarhoven

   OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 577

6. Scheduling the factory pick-up of new cars

   • Christoph Mellentien
   • Christoph Schwindt
   • Norbert Trautmann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 579 - 601

7. Acknowledgement to Referees

   Acknowledgments Pages: 603 - 604