Autor: Herbert Kopfer

An integrated operational transportation planning within a freight forwarding company demands a multilevel planning process involving several stages of decision makers. Interactions among the involved autonomous workers generate conflicts. The barriers created by such conflicts should be removed in order to generate a positive emergence of the planning processes. On the basis of theoretical frames for conflict management the possibilities of coping with the conflicts arising in the freight forwarding company are introduced.

Horizontal cooperations offer a wide spectrum of possibilities for efficiency improvement within a company. At first, the decisions of the integrated operational transportation planning are presented in order to analyse the collaboration aspects. Next, different possibilities of broadening the introduced problem in terms of collaboration between several autonomous subsidiaries of one company are presented.

To cope with the hard global competition in shipbuilding and to secure a high volume of orders for German shipyards there is a need for strengthening research and development in shipyards. An economic development of ships needs a quick and distinct identification of product data as well as a high efficiency of the processes which are linked with these data. To achieve these demands an integration of a product data model and of a process model is necessary witch is described in this paper.