My book has been published

My book is online and available for sale at amazon.com  - http://is.gd/ex6IF. I just found out today because my mom discovered this for me :-).

 

Product Description

Collaboration among businesses is currently considered to be driver for growth, cost reduction and innovation in many industries. Collaboration together with technology and visibility is the way how to improve complex multinational supply chains. This publication describes new concepts of collaborative planning in supply chains. The theoretical part depicts developments of supply chain planning from 60s until recent time and shows possible solutions of common supply chain planning problems in form of modern collaborative practices (e.g. Quick Response, Continuous Replenishment, Vendor-managed Inventory, Efficient Consumer Response). In further parts, the work mainly focuses on CPFR (Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenisment) concept. There is a separate chapter devoted to benchmarks and pilots of CPFR. In addition to that, practical research of one particular example of CPFR implementation was conducted in cooperation with companies T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom AG) and Nokia. Results of this research can be found in the last chapter.

My new activities - barbecue and inline skating :-)

Hello. This summer, I have tried two of very popular activities, those being one active and one lazy sport :-). Firstly, we have bought a new grill with Lukas. Small, transportable, classy american grill, brand Weber. We have already tried it out several times and invited also some friends to taste some of our outputs :-). So far so good, only once, we burnt one piece of cheese which smelled badly but the meat was always very good.

The second new activity I occasionally undertake is roller skating. The roller skates was a birthday gift from Lukas and I also chose the complete set of various protectors which already proved to be useful things. My record is 25 km route with 1 fall only which is not any extreme level of performance but anyhow I am proud of it and it´s been fun. Few weeks back, we were skating with my friends in Nymburk and Podebrady along the river Labe. I also bought a new shock-proof and water-proof camera, and we tried it out for the first time during this trip.