TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sethi,Suresh P.
AU  - Yan,Houmin
AU  - Zhang,Hanqin
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates
T2  - International Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
SN  - 9780387256634
AV  - TS155-TS194 
U1  - 658.5 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - Business
KW  - Management science
KW  - Management
KW  - Production management
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Industrial engineering
KW  - Production engineering
KW  - Engineering economics
KW  - Engineering economy
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - Operations Management
KW  - Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
KW  - Operation Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Industrial and Production Engineering
KW  - Business and Management, general
N1  - Inventory and Supply Chain Models with Forecast Updates -- Examples from Industry -- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes -- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes and Fixed Cost -- Inventory Models with Three Consecutive Delivery Modes -- Multiperiod Quantity-Flexibility Contracts -- Purchase Contract Management: Fixed Exercise Cost -- Purchase Contract Management: Two-Player Games
N2  - Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates is concerned with the problems of inventory and supply chain decision making with information updating over time. The models considered include inventory decisions with multiple sources and delivery modes, supply-contract design and evaluation, contracts with exercise price, volume-flexible contracts allowing for spot-market purchase decisions, and competitive supply chains. Real problems are formulated into tractable mathematical models, which allow for an analysis of various approaches, and provide insights for better supply chain management. The book provides a unified treatment of these models, presents a critique of the existing results, and points out potential research directions. Attention is focused on solutions – that is, inventory decisions prior and subsequent to information updates and the impact of the quality of information on these decisions
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b135819
ER  -