The Role of the Internet and e-Commerce in the Supply Chain -- Supply Chain Integration Over the Internet -- Customer Service Models for Bricks, Clicks and in Between -- B2B Markets: Procuremen and Supplier Risk Management in E-Business -- Supply Chain Coordination Models and Applications --...

The focus of the work is twofold. First, it provides an introduction into fundamental structural and behavioral aspects of periodic review inventory systems. Second, it includes a comprehensive study on analytical and optimization aspects of a specific class of those systems. For the latter...

Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon Networks presents methods to plan inventory in distribution networks. By holistically looking at the supply chain, it shows how safety stocks across all echelons can be optimized if inventory of all levels is taken into consideration. The gap between the...

A Century of the EOQ -- Multi-period Lot-sizing with Stationary Demand: Extension to Forecast Horizons -- EOQ Models with Supply Disruptions -- Existence of EOQ and Its Evaluation: Some Cases of Stock Blow Down Dynamics Depending on Its Level -- Generalizing the Ordering Cost and Holding-Backlog...

Introduction -- Buyback Contracts with Price-dependent Demands: Effects of Demand Uncertainty -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Wholesale Price Contracts with Stochastic Price-dependent Demand -- Franchise Fee Contracts in Product Service System with Demand Information Asymmetry -- Coordination of Supply...

Real problems are formulated into tractable mathematical models, which allow for an analysis of various approaches.Attention is focused on solutions.Provides a unified treatment of the models discussed , presents a critique of the existing results, and points out potential research directions.

Introduction -- Basic Multi-Item, Single-Location Inventory Model -- Multiple Machine Types with Commonality -- Service Differentiation -- Multi-Location System with Lateral Transshipments -- Two-Echelon System -- Multi-Echelon, Multi-Indenture System -- Static Repair Priorities.

Mean-Risk Analysis: An Introduction -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Single-Period Inventory Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Multi-Period Inventory Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis of Supply Chain Coordination Problems -- Mean-Risk Analysis: Conclusion, Future Research and Extensions

This book addresses a broad range of problems commonly encountered in the fields of financial analysis, logistics and supply chain management, such as the use of big data analytics in the banking sector. Divided into nineteen chapters, some of the contemporary topics discussed in the book are...

This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences. In the management section, without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book offers state-of-the-art concepts and methods to tackle...