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Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 17)
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Quantitative models and computer-based tools are essential for making decisions in today's business environment. These tools are of particular importance in the rapidly growing area of supply chain management. This volume is a unified effort to provide a systematic summary of the large variety of new issues being considered, the new set of models being developed, the new techniques for analysis, and the computational methods that have become available recently. The volume's objective is to provide a self-contained, sophisticated research summary - a snapshot at this point of time - in the area of Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management. While there are some multi-disciplinary aspects of supply chain management not covered here, the Editors and their contributors have captured many important developments in this rapidly expanding field.
The 26 chapters can be divided into six categories.
This volume can serve as a graduate text, as a reference for researchers and as a guide for further development of this field.
The 26 chapters can be divided into six categories.
- Basic Concepts and Technical Material (Chapters 1-6). The chapters in this category focus on introducing basic concepts, providing mathematical background and validating algorithmic tools to solve operational problems in supply chains.
- Supply Contracts (Chapters 7-10). In this category, the primary focus is on design and evaluation of supply contracts between independent agents in the supply chain.
- Value of Information (Chapters 11-13). The chapters in this category explicitly model the effect of information on decision-making and on supply chain performance.
- Managing Product Variety (Chapters 16-19). The chapters in this category analyze the effects of product variety and the different strategies to manage it.
- International Operations (Chapters 20-22). The three chapters in this category provide an overview of research in the emerging area of International Operations.
- Conceptual Issues and New Challenges (Chapters 23-27). These chapters outline a variety of frameworks that can be explored and used in future research efforts.
This volume can serve as a graduate text, as a reference for researchers and as a guide for further development of this field.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management
Editors: Sridhar Tayur, Ram Ganeshan, Michael Magazine
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4949-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8344-4Published: 31 December 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7246-2Published: 09 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4949-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 885
Topics: Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Optimization, Mechanical Engineering