Supply chain management (SCM) has become an important management paradigm. As
supply chain members are often separate and independent economic entities, a key issue in …

Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical
techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the …

This paper first presents an overview of inventory management. This includes a
categorization, by a number of dimensions, of inventory problems and associated models …

This pioneering book addresses the latest research findings and application results on
disruption management, which is the study of how to dynamically recover a predetermined …

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores,
manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even …

This paper studies echelon stock (R, nQ) policies in serial production/inventory systems with
stochastic demand. We provide a recursive procedure to compute the steady state echelon …

In this paper we consider periodic review systems under stochastic demands. First, we study
the single product periodic review problem and propose a simple solution procedure which …

We study echelon-stock (R, nQ) policies in a multistage, serial inventory system with
compound Poisson demand. We provide a simple method for determining near-optimal …

Using the net present value is the standard methodology in theoretical analysis, and the
most frequently used method for making financial decisions. However, net present value is …

Competitive environment of global networking and customization call for cost reduction in
arborescent (tree-like) inventory system. One of the keys to cost reduction is the integration …