Demand Flexibility in Supply Chain Planning

✍ Scribed by Joseph Geunes (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 95
• Series: SpringerBriefs in optimization
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work encapsulates the essential developments in this field into a single resource, as well as to set an agenda for further development in the field. This brief focuses on the demand flexibility in supply chains with fragmented results distributed throughout the literature. These results have strong implications for managing real-world complex operations planning problems.

This book exploits dimensions of demand flexibility in supply chains and characterizes the best fit between demand properties and operations capabilities and constraints. The origins and seminal works are traced in integrated demand and operations planning and an in-depth documentation is provided for the current state of the art. Systems with inherent costs and constraints that must respond to some set of demands at a minimum cost are examined. Crucial unanswered questions are explored and the high-value research directions are highlighted for both practice and for the development of new and interesting optimization models and algorithms.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Scope of Problem Coverage and Introduction....Pages 3-14
Production and Inventory Planning Models with Demand Shaping....Pages 15-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
EOQ-Type Models with Demand Selection....Pages 27-32
Single-Period Stochastic Inventory Planning with Demand Selection....Pages 33-39
Dynamic Lot Sizing with Demand Selection and the Pricing Analog....Pages 41-50
Dynamic Lot Sizing with Market Selection....Pages 51-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Assignment and Location Problems in Supply Chains....Pages 63-70
Branch-and-Price Decomposition for Assignment and Location Problems....Pages 71-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Research Challenges in Supply Chain Planning with Flexible Demand....Pages 85-90

✦ Subjects

Operations Research, Management Science; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Optimization; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management