Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the information pertaining to the downstream
part of the supply chain and then reviews the upstream information. The chapter discusses …

We investigate the data-driven newsvendor problem when one has n observations of p
features related to the demand as well as historical demand data. Rather than a two-step …

We study a single-product setting in which a firm can source from two suppliers, one that is
unreliable and another that is reliable but more expensive. Suppliers are capacity …

This is a textbook focusing on matrix-analytic methods. In this book, the basic theory is
accompanied by a large number of examples and exercises. The book is suitable for senior …

We incorporate information flow between a supplier and a retailer in a two-echelon model
that captures the capacitated setting of a typical supply chain. We consider three …

We consider a cooperative, two-stage supply chain consisting of two members: a retailer
and a supplier. In our first model, called local forecasting, each member updates the …

Supply chains are complicated dynamical systems triggered by customer demands. Proper
selection of equipment, machinery, buildings and transportation fleets is a key component …

In this paper, we consider an adaptive base-stock policy for a single-item inventory system,
where the demand process is nonstationary. In particular, the demand process is an …

Traditional inventory models focus on risk-neutral decision makers, ie, characterizing
replenishment strategies that maximize expected total profit, or equivalently, minimize …