This paper reviews inventory models with multiple supply options and discusses their
contribution to supply chain management. After discussing strategic aspects of supplier …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the supply chain operations planning (SCOP)
problem. The objective of SCOP is to coordinate the release of materials and resources in …

Literature on supply chain management (SCM) covers several disciplines and is growing
rapidly. This paper firstly aims at extracting the essence of SCM and advanced planning in …

provide models that could be used by do-it-yourselfers and also can be used toprovideunderstandingofthebackgroundiss…
job of working with the (proprietary) algorithms of the software vendors. In this book we …

Die Wiedergabe von Gebrauchsnamen, Handelsnamen, Warenbezeichnungen usw. in
diesem Buch berechtigt auch ohne besondere Kennzeichnung nicht zu der Annahme, dass …

Inter-organizational supply chain management incurs the challenge to align the activities of
all members which contribute to the value creation of a product or service offered to …

In the last few years growing interest has been dedicated to supply chain management.
Modeling complexity is added to the supply chain coordination problem by accounting for …

Publisher Summary It is important to identify different types of supply chains to derive fitting
management strategies. Planning systems, which try to implement these strategies …

Many real-world supply chains are multi-echelon systems consisting of several stages of
procurement, manufacturing, and transportation. In such systems, it is not obvious how to …

The number and scale of humanitarian operations has significantly increased during the
past decades due to the rising number of humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters …