Different aspects linked to planning and scheduling in the automotive industry have appeared in an interdisciplinary body of literature. For example, the discussion in production economics was driven by the results of MIT's first International Automobile Assembly Plant Study conducted 1985–1990 (cf. MacDuffie et al.,1996) and extended by the debate on mass customization (Rungtusanatham and Salvador, 2008), through which product variety can be delivered to end customers at low costs and with a short order lead-time. Another stream of literature is related to the conception, implementation and the use of IT-systems for planning and scheduling functions such as Advanced Planning Systems (APS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or Supply Chain Management (SCM) software (Gruat La Forme et al., 2009; Stadtler, 2005).