Volume              92              2005


                        Applications of Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce Research                  Editors:   

•     Joseph Geunes,
•     Elif Akçali,
•     Panos M. Pardalos,
•     H. Edwin Romeijn,
•     Zuo-Jun Max Shen
  

            ISBN: 978-0-387-23391-8 (Print) 978-0-387-23392-5  (Online)

About this bookThis volume contains a broad specturm of both research and applications in both supply chain management and e-business. Several chapters are written by practitioners at leading corporations.
It contains a variety of perspectives from researchers and pracitioners in disciplines beyond pure operations management or operations research.
Audience
This volume is suitable for researchers in supply chain management, e-business, and applied operations research as well as graduate students in these and other related disciplines. It would also be of interest to industry practitioners in supply chain management and e-business with interests in operations managements and operations research.                                                   
Table of contents
Coordination of Inventory and Shipment Consolidation Decisions.- A Near-Optimal Order-Based Inventory Allocation Rule.- Improving Supply Chain Performance through Buyer Collaboration.- Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practices.- Managing the Supply-Side Risks in Supply Chains.- Demand Propagation in ERP Integrated Assembly Supply Chains.- Bridging the Gap in Electronic Markets.- Strategies and Challenges of Internet Grocery Retailing Logistics.- Enabling Supply Chain Coordination.- Collaboration Technologies for Supporting E-supply Chain Management.- The State of Practice in Supply Chain Management.- Myths and Reality in Supply Chain Management.- Interlinking Multiple Research Streams.- Profit: Decision Technology.- Case Studies.