Supply chain management research has attracted a great deal of attention over the past ten years. Moreover, it is an area of research that covers an enormous territory involving multiple disciplines. Supply chain management is studied and practiced in both academic as well as by practitioner circles. This is a book that is written for students, researchers, and practitioners across a number of domains including Operations Management Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics and Engineering. The text is concerned with the problems of inventory and supply chain decision making with information updating over time.

The first unified treatment of forecasting updates in the management of supply chains Presentation is developed around a series of quantitative models and through these models numerous inventory decisions are carefully examined, including decisions from multiple sources, delivery modes, a variety of supply/volume/price types of contracts, competitive supply chains and others Focuses on actual, real world problems with critiques of existing results and approaches Also new research directions are suggested by the authors

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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.