Supply Chain Management and its Applications in Computer Science E-Book

Saoussen Krichen

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 105

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Supply chain management is a key topic for a large variety of strategic decision problems. It is essential in making efficient decisions related to the management of inventory and the delivery of final products to customers.

The focus of this book is the understanding of the supply chain taxonomy, the different levels of decision and the impact of one level on another depending on the modeling of the addressed objectives.

The authors explore the potential problems that can be addressed within the supply chain, such as the inventory, the transportation and issues of holding, and find applications in numerous fields of study, from cloud computing and networking through to industrial sciences.

The reader can find each issue described and its positioning in the supply chain determined. A computer science framework is also developed to show how the use of electronic platforms can aid in the handling of these potential problems.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

List of Figures

List of Tables

Glossary

Introduction

1 Preliminaries in Decision-Making

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Decision-making problems

1.3. Optimization modeling of a decision problem

1.4. Game theory modeling of a decision problem

1.5. Allocation methods

1.6. Conclusion

2 Introduction to Supply Chain Management

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Main elements of the supply chain

2.3. Main activities in the supply chain

2.4. Decision levels in the supply chain

2.5. Conclusion

3 The Ordering Problem

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Terminology

3.3. The one supplier–one retailer ordering problem

3.4. The one supplier–multiple retailers ordering problem

3.5. The multiple suppliers–one retailer ordering problem

3.6. The multiple suppliers–multiple retailers ordering problem

3.7. Conclusion

4 The Warehousing Problem

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Problem description

4.3. WP with variable cost/without conflicts

4.4. WP with fixed cost/without conflicts

4.5. WP with variable cost/with conflicts

4.6. WP with fixed cost/with conflicts

4.7. A DSS design for the warehousing problem

4.8. Example

4.9. Answer

4.10. Conclusion

5 Inventory Management

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Definition of inventory management

5.3. Purposes of inventory

5.4. Inventory modeling

5.5. Conclusion

6 The Delivery in the Supply Chain

6.1. Introduction