Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management
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...
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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. 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. Booknews Contributions describe the new issues, models, techniques for analysis, and computational methods that have been developed during this golden age of Operations Management. The 26 chapters fall into six categories: basic concepts and technical material (provides mathematical background and algorithmic tools to solve operational problems in supply chains); supply contracts (focuses on design and evaluation); value of information (models the effect of information on decision making and on supply chain performance); managing product variety (analyzes the effects of product variety and various management strategies); international operations; and conceptual issues and new challenges. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
1Introduction12Optimal Policies and Simulation Based Optimization for Capacitated Production Inventory Systems73Service Levels and Tail Probabilities in Multistage Capacitated Production-Inventory Systems414On (R, NQ) Policies Serial Inventory Systems715Competitive Supply Chain Inventory Management1116Vehicle Routing and the Supply Chain1477Supply Contracts with Quantity Commitments and Stochastic Demand1978Supply Chain Contracting and Coordination with Stochastic Demand2339Designing Supply Contracts: Contract Type and Information Asymmetry26910Modeling Supply Chain Contracts: A Review29911Modeling the Impact of Information on Inventories33712Modeling Impacts of Electronic Data Interchange Technology35913Business Cycles and Productivity in Capital Equipment Supply Chains38114The Bullwhip Effect: Managerial Insights on the Impact of Forecasting and Information on Variability in a Supply Chain41715Value of Information Sharing and Comparison with Delayed Differentiation44116Managing Product Variety: An Operations Perspective46717Retail Inventories and Consumer Choice49118The Benefits of Design for Postponement55319Stochastic Programming Models for Managing Product Variety58520Global Sourcing Strategies Under Exchange Rate Uncertainty62521Global Supply Chain Management: A Survey of Research and Applications66922Managing Supply Chains in Emerging Markets70323Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Approaches to Supply Chain Modeling73724Inventory Planning in Large Assembly Supply Chains76125Managing Inventory for Fashion Products78926Inventory Control for Joint Manufacturing and Remanufacturing80727A Taxonomic Review of Supply Chain Management Research839Index
\ BooknewsContributions describe the new issues, models, techniques for analysis, and computational methods that have been developed during this golden age of Operations Management. The 26 chapters fall into six categories: basic concepts and technical material (provides mathematical background and algorithmic tools to solve operational problems in supply chains); supply contracts (focuses on design and evaluation); value of information (models the effect of information on decision making and on supply chain performance); managing product variety (analyzes the effects of product variety and various management strategies); international operations; and conceptual issues and new challenges. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)\ \
