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VI. Acknowledgements
The work at hand has been created in the context of an in-service dissertation project over a period of time, primarily between 2001 and 2005, at the Department of Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne, Germany by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Seibt, who is presently leading the Research Department for Information Systems and Learning Processes. Since then, the content has been continuously updated and comprises the status quo of practical knowledge and academic research as at the beginning of 2007.
As the author, I have been working as a consultant and project manager with Bearing Point (formerly KPMG Consulting) and SAP AG on projects in Europe and the United States during the creation of this work. In the course of these projects, I had ample opportunity to acquire intensive and extended insights into the topics of Supply Chain Management and SCOR. The resulting experiences are reflected in the work in many ways.
Special thanks for the initiation, development and execution of the work are due to my doctoral advisor, Prof. Dr. Dietrich Seibt. He literally took and fulfilled the role and acted as a real advisor. In this sense, he always gave me the appropriate and necessary impulses at the right time with his suggestions, encouragement and constructive criticism.
The second opinion was kindly adopted by Prof. Dr. Detlef Schoder, director of the Seminar for Information Systems and Information Management at the University of Cologne. The chair of the debate was Prof. Dr. Ulrich Thonemann, director of the Seminar for Supply Chain Management and Management Science at the University of Cologne.
Further thanks go to Prof. Richard Welke, director of the Center for Process Innovation at J. Mack Robinson College of Business at the Georgia State University. Based on his experiences with normative models in general, and the SCOR model in particular, he provided me with helpful references and suggestions, which have been incorporated into the work.