Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management

✍ Scribed by Sridhar Tayur, Ram Ganeshan (auth.), Sridhar Tayur, Ram Ganeshan, Michael Magazine (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 850
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 17
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Optimal Policies and Simulation-Based Optimization for Capacitated Production Inventory Systems....Pages 7-40
Service Levels and Tail Probabilities in Multistage Capacitated Production-Inventory Systems....Pages 41-70
On (R,NQ) Policies in Serial Inventory Systems....Pages 71-109
Competitive Supply Chain Inventory Management....Pages 111-146
Vehicle Routing and the Supply Chain....Pages 147-196
Supply Contracts with Quantity Commitments and Stochastic Demand....Pages 197-232
Supply Chain Contracting and Coordination with Stochastic Demand....Pages 233-268
Designing Supply Contracts: Contract Type and Information Asymmetry....Pages 269-297
Modeling Supply Chain Contracts: A Review....Pages 299-336
Modeling the Impact of Information on Inventories....Pages 337-357
Modeling Impacts of Electronic Data Interchange Technology....Pages 359-379
Business Cycles and Productivity in Capital Equipment Supply Chains....Pages 381-415
The Bullwhip Effect: Managerial Insights on the Impact of Forecasting and Information on Variability in a Supply Chain....Pages 417-439
Value of Information Sharing and Comparison with Delayed Differentiation....Pages 441-466
Managing Product Variety: An Operations Perspective....Pages 467-490
Retail Inventories and Consumer Choice....Pages 491-551
The Benefits of Design for Postponement....Pages 553-584
Stochastic Programming Models for Managing Product Variety....Pages 585-622
Global Sourcing Strategies Under Exchange Rate Uncertainty....Pages 625-667
Global Supply Chain Management: A Survey of Research and Applications....Pages 669-702
Managing Supply Chains in Emerging Markets....Pages 703-736
Bottom-Up Vs. Top-Down Approaches to Supply Chain Modeling....Pages 737-759
Inventory Planning in Large Assembly Supply Chains....Pages 761-787
Managing Inventory for Fashion Products....Pages 789-805
Inventory Control for Joint Manufacturing and Remanufacturing....Pages 807-837
A Taxonomic Review of Supply Chain Management Research....Pages 839-879
Back Matter....Pages 881-885

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Optimization; Mechanical Engineering