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.

This third edition, which has been fully updated and now includes improved and extended explanations, is suitable as a core textbook as well as a source book for industry practitioners. It covers traditional approaches for forecasting, lot sizing, determination of safety stocks and reorder...

This third edition provides operations management students, academics, and professionals with a fully up-to-date, practical and comprehensive sourcebook in the science of distribution and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Its objective is not only to discover the roots and detail the techniques of...

Part I: Reviews and Discussions -- Reverse Logistics of US Carpet Recycling -- Green Brand Strategies in the Fashion Industry: Leveraging Connections of the Consumer, Brand, and Environmental Sustainability -- Impacts of Social Media Mediated Electronic Words of Mouth on Young Consumers’...

This book provides comprehensive and concise definitions of risk pooling and risk-pooling methods, a straightforward statistical explanation, and a value-chain oriented framework for analyzing risk-pooling methods. Risk pooling mitigates demand and lead time uncertainty in logistics and supply...

Introduction -- Data Envelopment Analysis -- Production Possibility Set and Efficiency -- Multiple Objective Linear Programming -- Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Linear Programming -- Incorporating Preference Information to Data Envelopment Analysis -- Value...