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Operations Research Models for Supply Chain Management and Design

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Strategic Design Models

  Distribution System Design

  Location-Routing Models

Production and Logistics Control Models

  Combined Inventory and Transportation Decisions

  Inventory Placement

  The Bullwhip Effect

Supply Chain Simulation Models

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  1. Department Industrial and Systems Engineering, University Florida, Gainesville, USA

    Joseph Geunes

  2. Department Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University Technol., Seoul, Korea

    ByungMan Chang

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    Christodoulos A. Floudas

  2. Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611-6595, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Geunes, J., Chang, B. (2008). Operations Research Models for Supply Chain Management and Design . In: Floudas, C., Pardalos, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74759-0_467

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