Quick 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.

The Evolution of Quick Response Programs

Impact of Information Systems on Quick Response Programs
Fast Fashion: Achieving Global Quick Response (GQR) in the Internationally Dispersed Clothing Industry
Modelling and Analysis of QR Programmes
Procurement Flexibility under Price Uncertainty
The Value of Information in Quick Response Supply Chains: An Assortment Planning View
Improving Revenue Management: A Real Option Approach
Supply Chain Scheduling Under Quick Response
Dynamic Pricing of Seasonal Product without Replenishment: A Discrete Time Analysis
Supplier Selection in Make-to-Order Manufacturing
Enabling Technologies for QR Programmes
Enhancing Responsiveness for Mass Customization Strategies through the Use of Rapid Manufacturing Technologies
Innovative Process in E-Commerce Fashion Supply Chains
The Next Generation Demand Network in Quick Response Systems: Intelligent Products, Packet Switching and Dynamic Information
RFID's Applications in Quick Response Systems
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems for the Textiles and Clothing Industry
Simulation-based Optimization of Inventory Model with Products Substitution
Applications and Case Studies
Fast Fashion: Quantifying the Benefits
Divide and Conquer: From MTO to ATO/MTO
Quick Response Practices in the Hong Kong Apparel Industry
Efficient Response Systems with RFID Technology: Cases in China
The Emergence of the Fast Fashion Business Model and Imposed Quick Response Challenges for Chinese Fabric Manufacturers
Innovative Mass Customization in the Fashion Industry
Improving Allocation of Inventory for Quick Response to Customer Orders: A Case Study.