Demand Flexibility in Supply Chain Planning

• Main Author: Geunes, Joseph (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Optimization,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Production management.; Mathematical optimization.; Operations research.; Management science.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Optimization.; Operations Management.

This work encapsulates the essential developments in this field into a single resource, as well as to set an agenda for further development in the field. This brief focuses on the demand flexibility in supply chains with fragmented results distributed throughout the literature. These results have st...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Scope of Problem Coverage and Introduction
• 2. Production and Inventory Planning Models with Demand Shaping
• 3. EOQ-Type Models with Demand Selection
• 4. Single-Period Stochastic Inventory Planning with Demand Selection
• 5. Dynamic Lot Sizing with Demand Selection and the Pricing Analog
• 6. Dynamic Lot Sizing with Market Selection
• 7. Assignment and Location Problems in Supply Chains
• 8. Branch and Price Decomposition for Assignment and Location Problems
• 9. Research Challenges in Supply Chain Planning with Flexible Demand.