Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Sridhar Tayur, Ram Ganeshan, Michael Magazine

   Pages 1-6

3. Optimal Policies and Simulation-Based Optimization for Capacitated Production Inventory Systems

   • Roman Kapuscinski, Sridhar Tayur

   Pages 7-40

4. Service Levels and Tail Probabilities in Multistage Capacitated Production-Inventory Systems

   • Paul Glasserman

   Pages 41-70

5. On (R,NQ) Policies in Serial Inventory Systems

   • Fangruo Chen

   Pages 71-109

6. Competitive Supply Chain Inventory Management

   • Gérard P. Cachon

   Pages 111-146

7. Vehicle Routing and the Supply Chain

   • Shoshana Anily, Julien Bramel

   Pages 147-196

8. Supply Contracts with Quantity Commitments and Stochastic Demand

   • Ravi Anupindi, Yehuda Bassok

   Pages 197-232

9. Supply Chain Contracting and Coordination with Stochastic Demand

   • Martin A. Lariviere

   Pages 233-268

10. Designing Supply Contracts: Contract Type and Information Asymmetry

    • Charles J. Corbett, Christopher S. Tang

    Pages 269-297

11. Modeling Supply Chain Contracts: A Review

    • Andy A. Tsay, Steven Nahmias, Narendra Agrawal

    Pages 299-336

12. Modeling the Impact of Information on Inventories

    • Ananth V. Iyer

    Pages 337-357

13. Modeling Impacts of Electronic Data Interchange Technology

    • Sunder Kekre, Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Kannan Srinivasan

    Pages 359-379

14. Business Cycles and Productivity in Capital Equipment Supply Chains

    • Edward G. Anderson Jr., Charles H. Fine

    Pages 381-415

15. The Bullwhip Effect: Managerial Insights on the Impact of Forecasting and Information on Variability in a Supply Chain

    • Frank Chen, Zvi Drezner, Jennifer K. Ryan, David Simchi-Levi

    Pages 417-439

16. Value of Information Sharing and Comparison with Delayed Differentiation

    • Srinagesh Gavirneni, Sridhar Tayur

    Pages 441-466

17. Managing Product Variety: An Operations Perspective

    • Amit Garg, Hau L. Lee

    Pages 467-490

18. Retail Inventories and Consumer Choice

    • Siddharth Mahajan, Garrett J. van Ryzin

    Pages 491-551

19. The Benefits of Design for Postponement

    • Yossi Aviv, Awi Federgruen

    Pages 553-584

20. Stochastic Programming Models for Managing Product Variety

    • Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Sridhar R. Tayur

    Pages 585-622

Quantitative models and computer-based tools are essential for making decisions in today's business environment. These tools are of particular importance in the rapidly growing area of supply chain management. This volume is a unified effort to provide a systematic summary of the large variety of new issues being considered, the new set of models being developed, the new techniques for analysis, and the computational methods that have become available recently. The volume's objective is to provide a self-contained, sophisticated research summary - a snapshot at this point of time - in the area of Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management. While there are some multi-disciplinary aspects of supply chain management not covered here, the Editors and their contributors have captured many important developments in this rapidly expanding field.
The 26 chapters can be divided into six categories.

• Basic Concepts and Technical Material (Chapters 1-6). The chapters in this category focus on introducing basic concepts, providing mathematical background and validating algorithmic tools to solve operational problems in supply chains.
• Supply Contracts (Chapters 7-10). In this category, the primary focus is on design and evaluation of supply contracts between independent agents in the supply chain.
• Value of Information (Chapters 11-13). The chapters in this category explicitly model the effect of information on decision-making and on supply chain performance.
• Managing Product Variety (Chapters 16-19). The chapters in this category analyze the effects of product variety and the different strategies to manage it.
• International Operations (Chapters 20-22). The three chapters in this category provide an overview of research in the emerging area of International Operations.
• Conceptual Issues and New Challenges (Chapters 23-27). These chapters outline a variety of frameworks that can be explored and used in future research efforts.

This volume can serve as a graduate text, as a reference for researchers and as a guide for further development of this field.

• Feder
• Manufacturing
• Stochastic Programming
• Supply Chains
• design
• development
• modeling
• optimization
• programming
• simulation

• Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  Sridhar Tayur

• University of Cincinnati, USA

  Ram Ganeshan, Michael Magazine

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