Analysis and Algorithms for Service Parts Supply Chains

• Provides a broad overview of modeling approaches and solution methodologies for addressing inventory problems, particularly the management of high cost, low demand rate service parts found in multi-echelon settings

• The text may be used in a variety of courses for first-year graduate students or senior undergraduates, or as a reference for researchers and practitioners

• A background in stochastic processes and optimization is assumed

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Preface Foreword by General George Babbitt Introduction Background Backgound Concepts An Exact Model Tactical Planning Models A Continuous Time Lateral Resupply Capacity Limited Systems Extension of Palm's Theorem to Non-Stationary Demand Processes Real Time Execution Systems Bibliography * Index