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 …

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

This paper presents a study on the impacts of information sharing and ordering co‐
ordination on the performance of a supply chain with one capacitated supplier and multiple …

Multiple forms of digital transformation are imminent. Digital Twins represent one concept. It
is gaining momentum because it may offer real-time transparency. Rapid diffusion of digital …

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

Fixed costs of ordering items or setting up a production process arise in many real‐life
scenarios. In their presence, the most widely used ordering policy in the stochastic inventory …

This paper studies the preorder strategy that a seller may use to sell a perishable product in
an uncertain market with heterogeneous consumers. By accepting preorders, the seller is …

We consider a periodic-review single-product inventory system with fixed cost under
censored demand. Under full demand distributional information, it is well known that the …

We consider firms that feature their products on the Internet but take orders offline. Click and
order data are disjoint on such non‐transactional websites, and their matching is error …

The quick response (QR) supply chain system has received a great deal of attention in the
recent past because of the advances in many new technologies such as RFID systems and …