Supply Chain Optimisation: Product/Process Design, Facility Location and Flow Control

by Alexandre Dolgui (Editor), Jerzy Soldek (Editor), Oleg Zaikin (Editor)

This volume collects recent results in supply chain optimisation. It presents new approaches and methods based on operations research, artificial intelligence and advanced computing techniques for design of production systems, supply and inventory management, production planning and scheduling, location, transportation and logistics, and simulation in supply flow optimisation. The text presents a wide spectrum of optimisation problems taking into account supply chain paradigms, which are pivotal to improving productivity.

306 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2004