Today, information systems (IS) are used for business processes from communications to orderprocessing and number crunching, and in business functions ranging from marketing to humanresource management, accounting, and finance. Regardless of your future occupation, the chancesare that you will...

The issue of vendor choice has traditionally not been considered in determining the optimal set of products to produce. That is, component purchase has typically been considered only at the MRP explosion stage, well after the set of products to produce and their production quantities has been...