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Book SynopsisSupply chain management decisions are made under the conflicting criteria of maximizing profit and customer responsiveness while minimizing supply chain risk. Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Supply Chain Management provides a comprehensive overview of multi-criteria optimization models and methods that can be used in supply chain decision making.
Presenting the contributions of internationally known authors, researchers, educators, and practitioners, this new book in the Operations Research Series provides readers with a single source guide to recent developments in this area.
The focus of the book is on the design and operation of the supply chain system, which involves connecting many production and distribution systems, often across wide geographic distances, in such a way that the businesses involved can ultimately satisfy the consumer demand as efficiently as possible, resulting in maximum financial returns to those businesses connecte
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"A well-structured book to explain the importance of supply chain management (SCM) with a focus on the design and operation of the supply chain system. Multi criteria decision making models are utilized to cope with conflicting objectives such as profit maximization, risk minimization, and customer demand satisfaction. ... This book is a valuable contribution in which multi criteria decision making solution approaches are utilized in order to deal with conflicting objectives of supply chain management with a focus on both design and planning. It is a self-contained guide and an essential source of information for any academician or practitioner especially interested in supply chain management and multi criteria decision making domain. One can learn the necessary approaches and procedures for performing the success towards profitable management considering efficiency, risk, and responsiveness in supply chain management."
—Can B. Kalayci, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Pamukkale University, Turkey
Table of ContentsManaging Supply Chains: An Introduction. Multiple Criteria Decision Making: An Overview. Designing Resilient Global Supply Chain Networks. A Two-Phased Approach to Multi-Objective Supply Chain Design and Operation. Multi-Criteria Distribution Planning Model for a Consumer Goods Company. Multi-Criteria Network Design in Health and Humanitarian Logistics. Incorporating Disruption Risk in a Supply Chain Network Design Model. A Bi-Criteria Model for Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design Incorporating Customer Behavior. Multi-Objective Multi-Period Supplier Selection Problem with Product Bundling. An Analytical Supply Chain Disruption Framework and a Multi-Objective Supplier Selection Model with Risk Mitigation. Multi-Criteria Decision Making Models in Planning Prevention Services. Investigation of Order-Up-To-Policy and Allocation-Rationing Mechanism for Divergent Supply Chains with Multiple Objectives. Index.
