Quantitative models for supply chain management
By: edited by Sridhar Tayur, Ram Ganeshan, and Michael Magazine.
Contributors: Tayur, Sridhar.; Ganeshan, Ram.; Magazine, Michael.
Series: International series in operations research & management science ;; 17
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 885
Subjects: Business logistics -- Mathematical models; Business logistics -- Data processing; Inventory control -- Mathematical models; Inventory control -- Data processing
Description: 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. This volume can serve as a graduate text, as a reference for researchers and as a guide for further development of this field.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.