Operations Research category: 1119 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Advancements in the field of information technology have transformed the way businesses interact with each other and their customers. Businesses now require customized products and services to reflect their constantly changing environment, yet this results in cutting-edge products with relatively short...
by Matthew B. Myers, John T. Mentzer, Theodore Paul Stank
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2006
This state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive understanding and assessment of the field of global supply chain management (GSCM). Editors John T. Mentzer, Matthew B. Myers, and Theodore P. Stank bring together a distinguished group of contributors to describe and critically examine the key perspectives guiding GSCM, taking stock of what we know (and do not know) about them.
Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems
COST Action TU1004 (TransITS)
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
This book shows how transit assignment models can be used to describe and predict the patterns of network patronage in public transport systems. It provides a fundamental technical tool that can be employed in the process of designing, implementing and evaluating measures and/or policies to improve...
Pro-active Dynamic Vehicle Routing
Real-Time Control and Request-Forecasting Approaches to Improve Customer Service
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book deals with transportation processes denoted as the Real-time Distribution of Perishable Goods (RDOPG). The book presents three contributions that are made to the field of transportation. First, a model considering the minimization of customer inconvenience is formulated. Second, a pro-active...
Managing Service Productivity
Using Frontier Efficiency Methodologies and Multicriteria Decision Making for Improving Service Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This volume describes how frontier efficiency methodologies such as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and other techniques such as multi-criteria decision making can help service industries to improve their performance by providing a ranking of best-practice efficient service units and by identifying...
Waste to Wealth - A Distant Dream?
Challenges in the Waste Disposal Supply Chain in Bangalore, India
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This supply chain case study introduces Bangalore, India's lengthy, complex waste collection and management process, and the primary responsibility of BBMP and associated contractors. It focuses on the role of the waste pickers, whose willingness to effectively sort and segregate waste is crucial...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study examines Remingtin Medical Devices' opportunities to modernize distribution, optimize inventory levels, reduce transportation costs, and operate more effectively in an intensely competitive industry. It illuminates unique distribution challenges associated...
Sherman's Supply Chain Challenge
Stopping the Retailer from Overcharging for Soda
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study challenges students to identify the optimal pricing strategy to maximize profitability for both a soda manufacturer and its exclusive distributor: a price strategy that will resolve excess capacity and inventory problems caused by higher-than-necessary retail prices. Crystallizing...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study examines supply chain issues faced by food retailers as consumers demand greater variety, more fresh produce, and year-round access to exotic products--ranging from Fair Trade coffee from Bali to fresh-cut roses from Kenya. It discusses what managers must do to manage increased supply...
BESSI
The Importance of Coordinating Product Development with Supply Chain Planning in the Fashion Goods Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study focuses on BESSI, one of Italy's most fashionable leather goods and accessories brands. It presents key performance challenges in logistics, including delayed deliveries, high inventory levels, and unavailable products, showing how these problems are exacerbated...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
In this edited volume, we present the state-of-the-art views of the perspective of enterprise risk management, to include frameworks and controls in the ERM process with respect to supply chains, constructions, and project, energy, environmental and sustainable development risk management. The bulk...
by Dmitry Ivanov
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences. In the management section, without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book offers state-of-the-art concepts and methods to tackle supply...
Transport of Water versus Transport over Water
Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of Transport and Water
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand. The main contribution of the...
by Sven Axsäter
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
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 practitioners. It covers traditional approaches for forecasting, lot sizing, determination of safety stocks and reorder points,...