In today's global economy, supply chains are an essential ingredient to corporate survival and growth. Operations strategy in supply chains must assume an ever-expanding and strategic role of risks that modern enterprises face when they operate in an interdependent supply chain environment. These operational and strategic facets entail a brand new set of operational problems and risks that have not always been understood or managed very well. It falls to supply chain managers to identify and to educate corporate managers on what these critical operational problems and risks involve. Supply Chain Games: Operations Management and Risk Valuation provides business students and practitioners with the means to understand, to model and to analyze these outstanding issues and problems that are the essential elements in managing supply chains today.

The recent explosive growth in supply chains, maintaining control over traditional operational and risk management issues, have become even more in complex and at the same time strategic-game-like in their nature. This is the first expository analysis and application of these recent developments in today's economy Addresses new and developing concerns in the field and it will be of much interest to all Supply Chain Management practitioners and students Charles Tapiero is highly regarded internationally in Operations Management and Risk Analysis. He teaches at universities in the US, Paris and Israel. While Konstantin Kogan is not as well known as Tapiero, he comes with excellent academic credentials and he teaches at both Brooklyn Polytechnic University and in Israel Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Supply Chains and Operations Modeling and Management.- Supply chain operations management.- Supply chain games: modeling in a static framework.- Supply chain games: modeling in a multi-period framework.- Intertemporal Supply Chain Management.- Supply chain games: modeling in an intertemporal framework.- Supply chain games: modeling in an intertemporal framework with periodic review.- Sustainable collaboration in supply chains.- Risk and Supply Chain Management.- Risk and supply chains.- Quality and supply chain management.