The use of data mining in supply chains is growing, and covers almost all aspects of supply chain management. A framework of supply chain analytics is used to classify data mining publications reported in supply chain management academic literature. Scholarly articles were identified using...

The last century has witnessed extant studies on the applications of Management Science (MS) to a diverse set of Supply Chain Management (SCM) issues. This paper provides an overview of the contribution of MS within SCM. A framework is developed in this paper with a sampling of MS contributions...

Financial stress experienced by supply chain elements causes stress to all members. Predictive data mining is a common tool for predicting bankruptcy. Bankruptcy often involves highly imbalanced datasets with a large number of potential variables, with bankrupt firms being by far the minority...

This book expands the scope of risk management beyond insurance and finance to include accounting risk, terrorism, and other issues that can threaten an organization. It approaches risk management from five perspectives: in addition to the core perspective of financial risk management, it...

We propose a price-only trade credit model in an overconfident supply chain with a price-setting newsvendor. Stackelberg equilibrium in different scenarios are derived, respectively. The retailer's pricing power prevents the manufacturer from squeezing all profit. When the manufacturer knows the...

This book analyzes various aspects of enterprise information systems (EIS), including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management systems, and business process reengineering. It describes the evolution and functions of these systems, focusing on issues...

We attempt to understand the role of accounts receivable mortgage in a capital-constrained supply chain and to capture the interaction of firms’ operations decisions within non-cooperation or cooperation conditions based on different bank credit policies. We consider a short-term loan directly...

This paper discusses a case that a supply chain consisting of a manufacturer (M) and an e-tailer (Y) at the initial stage. There is a new e-tailer (Y) who enters the market with some probability. Both e-tailers have two selling modes to choose from, i.e., the agency selling mode and the...

The past few decades have witnessed Chinese real estate developers’ persistent and successful pursuit of scale expansion as well as continued increase in industrial concentration, both of which strongly suggests the existence of scale economies. Based on data of 160 listed developers in China...