Core Concepts and Practices -- Principles for the Strategic Design of Supply Chains -- Tactical Planning for Reinventing the Supply Chain -- The Role of Inventory in Superior Supply Chain Performance -- Supply Chain Performance Metrics -- Emerging Supply Chain Practices -- Sourcing Strategy and...

The rapidly developing new economies in China, India, Hungary, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil, etc., are at the crossroads of almost all major supply chains. In fact, these emerging economies are in fact growing faster than the established industrial economies of the world. However, given...

In multi-echelon repairable inventory systems with high set-up cost for order and/or high demand rates, the use of batch ordering may be more cost-effective than the common (S - 1, S) ordering policy. This paper addresses the issue of determining the optimal order batch size and stocking levels...