To gain cost advantage and market share, many firms implemented various initiatives such
as outsourced manufacturing and product variety. These initiatives are effective in a stable …

While the literature related to supply-chain disruptions is informative, it has primarily focused
on supply-chain disruptions from a general or high-level view of the phenomenon (eg supply …

One of the most important aspects of supply chain management (SCM) is the recovery
network (RN), which covers all activities associated with return products (such as collection …

Purpose The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and the associated economic lockdown
provided a jolt to businesses around the world and the global economy. Amid the ongoing …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

This third edition, which has been fully updated and now includes improved and extended
explanations, is suitable as a core textbook as well as a source book for industry …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship among green, lean, and
global supply chain strategies as found in the literature, with emphasis on the concurrent …

With the growing awareness of environmental sustainability, reverse logistics is a very timely
and critical area. Traditionally, the use of supply chain contracts has been proven to be …

The build-to-order supply chain management (BOSC) strategy has recently attracted the
attention of both researchers and practitioners, given its successful implementation in many …

We consider the problem of a newsvendor that is served by multiple suppliers, where any
given supplier is defined to be either perfectly reliable or unreliable. By perfectly reliable we …