Overview
- Includes chapters dealing with quantitative models, analytics and heuristics, qualitative models based on primary data and a simulation model to address operations and supply chain management problems
- Caters to wide audience in different disciplines related to business management, economics, and engineering due to the presentation of different solution methodologies
- Covers emerging research topics such as analytics in operations, behavioural operations, sustainable operations, health care operation, and problems involving cross functional areas in managing business
Part of the book series: Asset Analytics (ASAN)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Quantitative Models on Operations and Supply Chain Management
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Data Analytics, Qualitative, and Simulation Approaches to Operations and Supply Chain Issues
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Literature Review and Conceptual Framework on Operations and Supply Chain Management Aspects
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About this book
The book throws light on the emerging trends in the use of analytics, optimization, and simulation tools and empirical analysis to improve the performance of operations and supply chains of organizations. It will serve as an essential resource for practitioners, students, faculty members and scholars in operations management and related areas to gain knowledge and pursue high quality research on developments in areas such as managing the resource management andthe solution methodology---innovative tools employed in addressing the real world problems and the different optimization techniques.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
B Vipin is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Management Madras, Chennai, India. He has published his research findings in leading journals and he is a regular participant in leading operations management conferences. His areas of research interest are decision theory, behavioral operations management, sustainable operations, and healthcare operations management.
C Rajendran is a Professor and RAGS Family Foundation Institute Chair at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He obtained his PhD in industrial engineering and management from the same institute. He has been a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship more than 10 times since 1996 and has published in top journals of operations management. He has been awarded Dr.rer.pol.h.c. (Honorary Doctorate) from the University of Passau in 2017, and elected Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) in 2018. His areas of research interest include scheduling in manufacturing and service systems, logistics management, inventory optimization in deterministic systems, economic lot sizing and capacitated lot sizing problems, heuristics & metaheuristics, and their applications in operations and supply chain management, total quality management and service quality.
Ganesh Janakiraman is Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He obtained his PhD from Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. He has numerous articles in high ranking journals of operations management and has also attended several conferences and seminars as an invited speaker. His areas of interest include stochastic inventory theory, and, more broadly, decision making under uncertainty.
Deepu Philip is a Professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He obtained his PhD from MSU Bozeman, USA. He is currently working on several research projects funded by national and international agencies and has papers published in well-established research journals. His areas of research interest include production and operations management, systems engineering and simulation, and local search and optimization.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Emerging Frontiers in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications
Editors: B. Vipin, C. Rajendran, Ganesh Janakiraman, Deepu Philip
Series Title: Asset Analytics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2774-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2773-6Published: 17 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2776-7Published: 17 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2774-3Published: 15 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-5162
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5170
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Management, Optimization, Computer Science, general, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Research, Management Science