Applications of Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce Research

Sıla Çetinkaya (auth.), Joseph Geunes, Elif Akçali, Panos M. Pardalos, H. Edwin Romeijn, Zuo-Jun Max Shen (eds.)9780387233918, 0387233911

This volume contains a broad specturm of both research and applications in both supply chain management and e-business.
Several chapters are written by practitioners at leading corporations.

It contains a variety of perspectives from researchers and pracitioners in disciplines beyond pure operations management or operations research.

Audience

This volume is suitable for researchers in supply chain management, e-business, and applied operations research as well as graduate students in these and other related disciplines. It would also be of interest to industry practitioners in supply chain management and e-business with interests in operations managements and operations research.

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Table of contents :
Coordination of Inventory and Shipment Consolidation Decisions: A Review of Premises, Models, and Justification….Pages 3-51
A Near-Optimal Order-Based Inventory Allocation Rule in an Assemble-To-Order System and its Applications to Resource Allocation Problems….Pages 53-86
Improving Supply Chain Performance through Buyer Collaboration….Pages 87-118
The Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practices on the Decision Tools Required by the Trucking Industry….Pages 119-140
Managing the Supply-Side Risks in Supply Chains: Taxonomies, Processes, and Examples of Decision-Making Modeling….Pages 141-160
Demand Propagation in ERP Integrated Assembly Supply Chains: Theoretical Models and Empirical Results….Pages 161-192
Bridging the Trust Gap in Electronic Markets: A Strategic Framework for Empirical Study….Pages 195-216
Strategies and Challenges of Internet Grocery Retailing Logistics….Pages 217-252
Enabling Supply-Chain Coordination: Leveraging Legacy Sources for Rich Decision Support….Pages 253-298
Collaboration Technologies for Supporting E-Supply Chain Management….Pages 299-322
The State of Practice in Supply-Chain Management: A Research Perspective….Pages 325-361
Myths and Reality of Supply Chain Management: Implications for Industry-University Relationships….Pages 363-381
Supply Chain Management: Interlinking Multiple Research Streams….Pages 383-410
PROFIT: Decision Technology for Supply Chain Management at IBM Microelectronics Division….Pages 411-452
Case Studies: Supply Chain Optimization Models in a Chemical Company….Pages 453-477