Cost Management in Supply Chains — Different Research Approaches.- 1 — Developing Concepts for Cost Management in Supply Chains.- Supply Chain Costing — A Conceptual Framework.- Proactive Cost Management in Supply Chains.- A Framework for Extending Lean Accounting into a Supply Chain.- Managing Costs Across the Supply Chain.- Organizational Settings in Supply Chain Costing.- 2 — Applying Cost Management Instruments.- Supply Chain Target Costing — An Apparel Industry Case Study.- Integrating Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Assessment for Managing Costs and Environmental Impacts in Supply Chains.- Transfer Pricing in Supply Chains: An Exercise in Internal Marketing and Cost Management.- The Role of Finance in Supply Chain Management.- Non-Hierarchical Production Networks — Order Fulfillment and Costing.- Efficient Consumer Response — Increasing Efficiency through Cooperation.- Improving Supply Chain Productivity Through Horizontal Cooperation — the Case of Consumer Goods Manufacturers.- Cost Efficiency in Supply Chains — A Conceptual Discrepancy? Logistics Cost Management between Desire and Reality.- 3 — Building Cost Management Models.- Interdependencies between Supply Contracts and Transaction Costs.- Decision Support by Model Based Analysis of Supply Chains.- A New Customer-Oriented Methodology to Evaluate Supply Chain Lost Sales Costs Due to Stockout in Consumer Goods Sectors.- Global Supply Chain Management: Extending Logistics’ Total Cost Perspective to Configure Global Supply Chains.- Managing Stocks in Supply Chains: Modeling and Issues.- Some Optimization Tools to Improve Manufacturing and Supply Chain Performance.- An Options Approach to Enhance Economic Efficiency in a Dyadic Supply Chain.- 4 — Extending the Scope Beyond Cost.- UsingInternet-based Purchasing Tools in Supply Chains — Insights from a Retail Industry Analysis.- Complexity Management in the Supply Chain: Theoretical Model and Empirical Investigation in the Italian Household Appliance Industry.- Using the Balanced Scorecard for Interorganizational Performance Management of Supply Chains — A Case Study.- Editors.- Authors.