Contemporary issues in supply chain management and logistics / Anthony M. Pagano and Mellissa Gyimah.

This book is a collection of chapters on issues we face today in the world of Supply Chain Management. While there are a number of college text books related to specific areas within logistics and supply chain issues, there are very few general supply chain management "trends" books. Thus,...

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Main Authors: Pagano, Anthony M. (Author), Gyimah, Mellissa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Supply and operations management collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction, about this book
  • 2. Technology trends in logistics and supply chain management / Matthew Liotine, Anthony M. Pagano, and Siddhartha Varma Gadiraju
  • 3. The science of inventory optimization: profit optimally managing change and variability in the supply chain / William E. Stillman
  • 4. The demand prediction of location-dependent services / Fazle Karim and Houshang Darabi
  • 5. Supply chain education: are university courses providing the background that companies want for new employees? / Mellissa Gyimah
  • 6. An agent-based supply chain and freight transportation model: case study for Chicago metropolitan area / Zahra Pourabdollahi, Behzad Karimi, Kouros Mohammadian, and Kazuya Kawamura
  • 7. Kaplan-Meier estimators for single product demand using inventory level time-series / J. Christopher Westland
  • 8. Public-private partnerships (PPP) in transportation: an analysis of alternatives / Anthony M. Pagano
  • About the authors
  • Index.