Marcus Brandenburg

• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil.
• Professor at Hochschule Flensburg University of Applied Sciences

Purpose By January 1, 2023, the German supply chain due diligence act (SCDDA) has become effective. This represents a strong governmental intervention into global operations and supply chain management (SCM). Hence, its frame conditions and implications are worth being studied. Design/methodology/approach Expert interviews with managers reveal fac...

Supply chain planning is a crucial factor for operational excellence and competitive advantage. Related concepts and approaches were already designed in the last century and are now implemented by most firms in almost every industry sector. Advanced planning systems that provide decision-support for supply chain planning were conceptualized and dev...

Digital manufacturing empowers supply chains with enhanced information and resource flows. As a state-of-the-art technology related to Industry 4.0, additive manufacturing (AM) presents many possibilities for enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of supply chains embracing circular economy (CE). In this study, we use the content analysis meth...

This study systematically reviews 127 papers on sustainable supply chain management in the textile and apparel (T&A) industry. Gaps and trends in related research are determined in a content analysis according to structural dimensions and analytic categories of research method, supply chain management and sustainability and also risk and performanc...

The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept paves the way for the circular economy (CE) as advanced digital technologies enable sustainability initiatives. Hence, I4.0-driven CE-oriented supply chains (SCs) have improved sustainable performance, flexibility and interoperability. In order to smoothly embrace circular practices in digitally enabled SCs, quantita...

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged supply chains (SCs) around the globe unprecedentedly. This study aims to gain insights on the impacts of the pandemic on SCs and their management under consideration of different regional contexts on a global scale. Design/methodology/approach A Delphi study collects the expertise of global SC academics...

Purpose or objective: Due to savings in raw material and labour costs, the manufacturing stages of textile and apparel (T&A) supply chains (SCs) migrate from developed countries to developing countries or emerging economies such as Ethiopia. Over the last few years, the Federal Government of Ethiopia has focused on expanding strategic priority sect...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the technologies driving the shift to Industry 4.0. This transition reconfigures the supply chain to achieve the circular economy (CE) ideal along with improved resource efficiency. This study aims to explore how AM can be implemented in the CE context and to conceptualise the integration of AM and CE. The conc...

The Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept comprises advanced digital technologies that facilitate the digitally enabled sustainability approach leading to a Circular Economy (CE). I4.0 driven CE initiative leads to a paradigm shift in supply chain management (SCM), where quantitative methods provide practical solutions to issues that arise when adopting circ...

Managers often use financial metrics based on internal accounting data to gauge firm performance. In this paper, we analyze firm value and related levers of operational supply chain (SC) performance from a financial market perspective. This allows us to study the contributions of profitability (earns) and asset utilization (turns) as the two major...

The study at hand elaborates on potential barriers, prerequisites and optimization potentials for the automation of the twistlock handling process in container terminals. A case analysis enlightens latest automation developments of this essential task in container transport. Eight experts from different organizations in maritime logistics and seapo...

The proposed study deals with sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in the textile and apparel (T&A) industry. We analyze prerequisites and practices of supply chain (SC) sustainability in a multiple case study of the German and Ethiopian T&A industry. Our analysis is based on ten semi-structured interviews conducted with the managers of seven...

In order to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies face numerous strategic decisions of utmost importance for their future. Being aware of one's objectives is a prerequisite for sound decision making. However, decision and policy makers are often not aware of their objectives when facing important decisions in “normal” times. In addition,...

The motivations for clothing companies to implement dedicated certification schemes as sustainability practices has received limited attention in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) research so far. Therefore, it is important to understand how different rationales for the implementation of certification schemes have developed in the past bec...

Within assembly network supply chains, supply disruptions can occur on every supplier-buyer link. Managing this network unreliability can help to reduce schedule instability and increases the overall efficiency of the supply chain accordingly. In this line, a stylised assembly network supply chain model is proposed with two suppliers and a single b...

Sustainable operations and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) have become a highly relevant topic for scientific research and management, as well as policy-making practice. Despite surging growth in extant research, the need for theoretical and conceptual substantiation persists, and large opportunities for further research remain unexploit...

Dynamic capabilities (DCs) are crucial for companies to attain competitive advantage in dynamic business environments and supply chains, where environmental and social aspects are considered by sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). However, the effects of stakeholder influences on SSCM performance, which results from the interplay of DCs and...

In today’s business, it is largely acknowledged that sustainability has to be considered in managerial decision making and corporate strategy development. However, many firms still face substantial opera-tional and organizational challenges when striving for a transformation toward sustainability, especially when expanding their efforts toward thei...

For more than 20 years, the conceptualization of SC planning processes has been paralleled by the development of related planning systems. Traditional approaches focused on volume-based planning that matches demand and supply quantities, but more recently, value-based aspects and financial criteria have gained importance for SC planning. This study...

Globalized economic systems involve complex supply chains (SCs) where environmental and social impacts are to be managed in alignment with diverse stakeholder expectations and to mitigate sustainability-related risks. Quantitative modeling approaches for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) have gained increasing attention. Compared to analyt...

Operations excellence is an important factor for a firm's business success. Performance measurement and management systems (PMS) have turned out to be helpful tools to manage and steer a firm's operations. In contrast to a wide range of studies on the adequate design of sophisticated PMS, the implementation of such systems is hardly elaborated. Thi...

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has become a highly relevant topic in scientific research as well as in managerial practice. This chapter summarizes the findings of several reviews of SSCM literature. In addition, propositions and guidelines for future SSCM research are given. Based on these insights, the structure of the book at hand an...

The consideration of ecological and social impacts of supply chains is becoming a pressing issue and a competitive advantage for companies. Therefore, sustainability-related aspects have to be identified and integrated into supply chain management to allow for sustainable performance measurement. However, the widely recognized Supply Chain Operatio...

In recent years, establishing partnerships with actors from the so-called base of the pyramid (BoP) has become a pivotal task for firms that operate or do business in developing countries. By engaging in BoP markets, firms are able to meet their own growth targets while simultaneously stimulating the economic development of poor countries. Due to t...

Mit zunehmendem Anteil der Stadtbevölkerung auf zukünftig mehr als 70% weltweit stellt die Gestaltung der urbanen Mobilität eine der großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit dar. Angesichts der negativen Konsequenzen herkömmlicher Formen der Mobilität, wie Verkehrsstaus, Unfallgefahren und Emissionen, streben viele Metropolen eine nachhaltige Wandlung...

Within assembly network supply chains, supply disruptions can occur on every supplier-buyer link. Managing this network unreliability can help to reduce schedule instability and increases the overall efficiency of the supply chain accordingly. In this line, a stylised assembly network supply chain model is proposed with two suppliers and a single b...

Managing supply networks is a highly relevant task that strongly influences the competitiveness of firms from various industries. Designing supply networks is a strategic process that considerably affects the structure of the whole network. In contrast, supply networks for new products are configured without major adaptations of the existing struct...

The dataset at hand serves as a benchmark problem for hierarchical aggregate production planning in the chemical process industry. For this purpose, the data is represented by a state-task-network and complemented by further information for mid-term planning (esp. demand quantities and aggregate cost parameters). The dataset provides parameters tha...

This book focuses on environmental and social factors in international supply chains and industry networks. It explores whether socially-responsible and environmentally-conscious operations are complementary or conflictive to economic targets. The book elaborates on innovative approaches to manage the economic, ecological and social performance in...

Sustainability is a contributor to competitive advantage and a potential key to increase market shares in the saturated apparel sector. Managing supply chains environmentally and socially sustainable is a way to prevent from being associated with the many negative examples in the industry that are presented on a regular basis by NGOs and media. In...

Sustainability has become a highly relevant factor for companies, economies and societies. As a consequence, the consideration of environmental and social factors is crucial to manage supply chains sustainably. The study at hand analyses and compares conceptual frameworks and empirical studies on sustainable supply chain management. The gained insi...

Process industries typically involve complex manufacturing operations and thus require adequate decision support for aggregate production planning (APP). In this paper, we focus on two relevant features of APP in process industry operations: (i) sustainable operations planning involving multiple alternative production modes/routings with specific p...

Stakeholder influences on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) are of increasing interest for researchers to take into account economic, environmental, and social risks. While extant literature on stakeholder influences or risks in SSCM concentrates on selected issues, a comprehensive review of both stakeholder and risk constructs is missing....

Formal models that support multi-criteria decision making represent a strongly growing area in sustainable supply chain management research. However, uncertainties and risks are seldom considered in quantitative models for green supply chain (SC) design. The paper at hand suggests a hybrid approach to configure an eco-efficient SC for a new product...

This paper seeks to evaluate the development of supply chain (SC) efficiency and the resulting impacts on company value. In a secondary data analysis of the European automotive industry, the trends of cost efficiency and working capital performance in the years 2002-2010 and the resulting value impacts are assessed. It is detected that many compani...

Green supply chain management and product innovation both have become sources of competitive advantage for companies from different industries. However, research on the design of green supply chains for new products is scant. In this paper, a goal programming approach is suggested to optimize the supply chain configuration for a new consumer produc...

Nowadays, the integration of sustainability into supply chain management (SCM) is a key issue for ensuring corporate competitiveness in face of dynamic ecological and social environments. This paper reviews 185 journal publications of the last 20 years that formalize issues related to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in quantitative model...

The task of supply chain (SC) configuration is to establish a product-specific SC for new products. Apart from cross-regional network aspects and inter-disciplinary factors, the problem complexity is driven by dynamics and uncertainties of short product life cycles. SC configuration affects SC performance and value creation. Hence, resulting impact...

To achieve business sustainability, companies must perform a set of changes not only in their internal processes but also in the large-scale level of business ecosystems. This change of paradigm from individual to macro level requires an understanding of new drivers of innovation as a way to improve and look for new business dynamics, to minimize t...

Sustainability, the consideration of environmental factors and social aspects, in supply chain management (SCM) has become a highly relevant topic for researchers and practitioners. The applica¬tion of operations research methods and related models, i.e. formal modeling, for closed-loop SCM and reverse logistics has been effectively reviewed in pre...

To achieve business sustainability, companies must perform a set of changes not only in their internal processes but also in the large-scale level of business ecosystems. This change of paradigm from individual to macro level requires an understanding of new drivers of innovation as a way to improve and look for new business dynamics, to minimize t...

Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along with theory, methodologies and tools demonstrating...

Supply chain management (SCM) plays a crucial role in achieving competitive advantage thereby influencing company value. Nevertheless holistic models that allow for quantifying these value impacts of SCM are missing so far. Efficient approaches to calculate and compare value contributions from supply chain (SC) value drivers are needed. This chapte...

The task of tactical supply chain design (TSCD) for new product introduction (NPI) is to establish product-specific supply chains that ensure cost-efficiently on time and in full availability of new high quality products over the whole product life cycle (PLC). Besides cross-regional network aspects and inter-disciplinary factors the problem comple...

The question of value-based supply chain management has been of considerable interest for academics and practitioners alike over the last 10 years. Research in this area is characterised by heterogeneity in terminology and in applied methodologies. This chapter sheds light on the current status, applied terminology and future directions of research...

The research question addressed is to which extent supply chain management (SCM) creates value from cost and working capital. The chapter provides an empirical evaluation including insights on important criteria for value creation. In a secondary data analysis, ten leading fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are benchmarked regarding the va...

This chapter deals with the question how value-based aspects could be reflected in strategic supply chain (SC) planning, in particular how to determine strategic targets for SC value drivers in a long-term horizon of several years from which a framework for tactical and operational SC planning and control can be obtained. It describes an approach t...

This chapter concludes the thesis at hand. In the first section of this chapter, the findings of this dissertation are summarized to give answers to the three research questions of this thesis. The second section of this chapter comprises a thorough discussion of research design and results to position this dissertation to related scientific litera...

Highly competitive consumer markets resulting in growing product launch rates amplify the relevance of tactical supply chain design (TSCD) for new product introduction (NPI). The complexity of TSCD decisions is enhanced by dynamics and uncertainties in supply chains. Beyond this, increasing profitability expectations of capital markets lead to the...

Supply chain management (SCM) strives for creating competitive advantage and value for customers by integrating business processes from end users through original suppliers. However, the question of how SCM influences the value of a firm is not fully answered. Various conceptual frameworks that explain the coherence of SCM and company value, compre...

This chapter provides the terminological basis for the research of the thesis at hand and a review of related literature. The first section, which deals with value-based management (VBM), outlines what is comprehended by the term “value”, how it can be measured and what factors influence company value. This section ends with a discussion of empiric...

This sections comprises a formulation of the research questions of this dissertation and outlines the chosen research approach and how it is reflected by the structure of the thesis. Additionally, the coherence of its chapters is described. Furthermore, conceptual elements are defined and a conceptual framework for value-based SCM is designed as a...

Supply chain management (SCM) is identified and accepted as a competitive advantage. Nevertheless holistic approaches for value-based SCM to leverage this advantage in a value adding way are missing so far. Efficient approaches to quantify and compare value contributions from supply chain (SC) value drivers are needed. This chapter contributes to t...

The research question addressed is to which extent supply chain management (SCM) creates value from cost and working capital. The paper provides an empirical evaluation including insights on important criteria for value creation. In a secondary data analysis, 10 leading fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are benchmarked regarding the value...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is identified and accepted as a competitive advantage. Nevertheless holistic approaches for value-based SCM to leverage this advantage in a value adding way are missing so far. Efficient approaches to quantify and compare value contributions from Supply Chain (SC) value drivers are needed. This paper contributes to thi...

Supply chain management in chemical process industry focuses on production planning and scheduling to reduce production cost and inventories and simultaneously increase the utilization of production capacities and the service level. These objectives and the specific characteristics of chemical production processes result in complex planning problem...

We consider a complex scheduling problem in the chemical process industry involving batch production. The application described comprises a network of production plants with interdependent production schedules, multi-stage production at multi-purpose facilities, and chain production. The paper addresses three distinct aspects: (i) a scheduling solu...

This paper considers a complex scheduling problem in the chemical process industry involving batch production. The application described comprises a network of production plants with interdependent production schedules, multi-stage production at multi-purpose facilities, and chain production. The paper addresses three distinct aspects: (i) a schedu...

In der neueren Literatur wird empfohlen, eine Zuordnung von (potenziellen) Kunden zu Außendienstmitarbeitern durch eine Verkaufsgebietseinteilung durchzuführen. Dabei werden kleine geographische Gebietseinheiten zu Verkaufsgebieten gruppiert, die jeweils genau einem Außendienstmitarbeiter zugeordnet werden, wobei dann ein Außendienstmitarbeiter aus...

In recent literature it is proposed to assign (potential) customers to salespersons via sales territory alignment such that the total expected profit margin will be maximized. By this approach sales coverage units (SCUs) will be clustered into larger geographic areas called sales territories where the number of designed sales territories is equal t...

The program Numetrix/3 Production Scheduling is the current version of the former Schedulex. The latter is an artificial word made up of ‘Schedule’ and ‘x’, the last letter of Numetrix. To start with, we want to shed some light on these two components. Numetrix is a Toronto-based consulting company focused on Internet-enabled supply chain solutions...