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- The first unified treatment of forecasting updates in the management of supply chains
- Presentation is developed around a series of quantitative models and through these models numerous inventory decisions are carefully examined, including decisions from multiple sources, delivery modes, a variety of supply/volume/price types of contracts, competitive supply chains and others
- Focuses on actual, real world problems with critiques of existing results and approaches
- Also new research directions are suggested by the authors
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 81)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates is concerned with the problems of inventory and supply chain decision making with information updating over time. The models considered include inventory decisions with multiple sources and delivery modes, supply-contract design and evaluation, contracts with exercise price, volume-flexible contracts allowing for spot-market purchase decisions, and competitive supply chains. Real problems are formulated into tractable mathematical models, which allow for an analysis of various approaches, and provide insights for better supply chain management. The book provides a unified treatment of these models, presents a critique of the existing results, and points out potential research directions. Attention is focused on solutions – that is, inventory decisions prior and subsequent to information updates and the impact of the quality of information on these decisions.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA
Suresh P. Sethi
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Houmin Yan
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Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Academia Sinica, China
Hanqin Zhang
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates
Authors: Suresh P. Sethi, Houmin Yan, Hanqin Zhang
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b135819
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8123-1Published: 01 July 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5481-7Published: 08 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-25663-4Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 292
Topics: Operations Management, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Industrial and Production Engineering, Business and Management, general, Management