Networks Against Time

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction and Scope

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction and Scope

      • Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, Amir H. Masoumi, Ladimer S. Nagurney

      Pages 3-8

3. Supply Chain Network Optimization Models and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Blood Supply Chains

      • Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, Amir H. Masoumi, Ladimer S. Nagurney

      Pages 11-36

   3. Medical Nuclear Supply Chains

      • Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, Amir H. Masoumi, Ladimer S. Nagurney

      Pages 37-62

4. Supply Chain Network Game Theory Models and Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Food Supply Chains

      • Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, Amir H. Masoumi, Ladimer S. Nagurney

      Pages 65-88

   3. Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

      • Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, Amir H. Masoumi, Ladimer S. Nagurney

      Pages 89-116

   4. Fast Fashion Apparel Supply Chains

      • Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, Amir H. Masoumi, Ladimer S. Nagurney

      Pages 117-139

5. Back Matter

   Pages 141-142

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Despite significant achievements, the discipline of supply chain management is still unable to satisfactorily handle many practical real-world challenges.  The authors of Networks Against Time claim that a unified supply chain network analytics framework is needed which should be able to handle optimization and competitive behavior while also maintain relevance to many industrial sectors in which perishable products are prominent, from healthcare to food and from fashion apparel to technology. This Brief provides a wide range of critical supply chain problems which are modeled as generalized networks. Guidelines are provided to determine the arc multipliers that capture perish ability of the product whether food, radioisotopes, or even highly perishable blood in healthcare over space and time. Through case studies the authors portray the application of the models and algorithms to real-world sectors which illustrate the power of the framework in practice. The models and algorithms are fully described along with the input and output data in the case studies. This level of transparency is useful pedagogically as well as for future research and for applications in practice. Researchers and practitioners in mathematics, in operations research and management science, operations management, as well as in economics and computer science will find this book useful to gain a broader appreciation of the richness of network supply chain structures, processes, and applications. This book can also be used by advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in the disciplines noted above to familiarize themselves with methodologies and supply chain network models and applications.​​

• fashion supply chains
• food supply chains
• healthcare supply chains
• perishable products
• pharmaceutical supply chains
• supply chain networks

The structure of the book is very straightforward since all the chapters from 2 to 6 start by introducing the focus supply chain then unfold with the formulation of the model, the computational approach for its solution and the case study. The repetitive structure helps the reader to easily understand and connect the various parts of the book. Furthermore, each of these chapters ends with additional notes and links to other works about the supply chain at issue, as well as a rich and updated list of references, so that the content of the chapter can be related to and compared with the current state of the art. The level of mathematical formulation is adequate and all the presented formulas are explained in detail. Also, complete input and output data about case studies are presented.

In my opinion, this book is a valid contribution to the discipline of supply chain management in the time-sensitive product field because it provides a systematic and analytic framework of analysis which actually lacks in the existing literature.

-Anna Corinna Cagliano, Production Planning & Control

• Isenberg School of Management, Finance and Operations Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  Anna Nagurney

• , Pamplin School of Business, University of Portland, Portland, USA

  Min Yu

• , Finance and Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA

  Amir H. Masoumi

• , Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Hartford, West Hartford, USA

  Ladimer S. Nagurney

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