Introduction -- By the Numbers: A Visual Chronicle of GHG Emmissions -- Sustainable Supply Chains for Bio-Based Fuels and Chemicals -- Organizing for Sustainability: Exploratory Analysis of the Healthcare Industry -- Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System -- From a...

In this case study of an architectural/engineering firm, Tonya, Ram, and Robert offer a new technique for projecting the scope and costs of professional-service projects. They utilize historical monthly data to estimate relationships between project outputs on one hand and labor inputs and prior...

Online retailers (or Internet divisions of brick and mortar retailers) often offer shipping discounts (for example “free shipping on orders above $150”) to entice customers. The premise is that the retailer will attract more customers and these customers will likely buy more per order to...

Retail supply chains are complex, with each company in the chain having multiple echelons of distribution. Forecasting and requirements planning are further challenged by managers’ reliance on “local” rather than chain-wide retail demand to make key operational decisions. A frequent...