Analytics and model-based decision-making support -- Demand Forecasting, Production Planning and Inventory Control -- Discrete-Event Simulation of manufacturing processes and inventory control -- Facility location planning and network optimization -- Supply chain risk and resilience analytics.

The second edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply-chain and operations management, combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on the operational roles in the networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan...