Supply Chain Science

Written in a reader-friendly style, the text includes useful examples from manufacturers as well as service providers, presents the key concepts that underlie the behavior of operations systems in a largely nonmathematical way, contains illustrations and analogies to everyday life, links theory to practice, and reinforces the learning process with end-of-chapter "Questions for Thought."

Titles of related interest also from Waveland Press: Hopp-Spearman, Factory Physics, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667391) and Nahmias-Olsen, Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition (ISBN 9781478623069).

Table of Contents 0. STRATEGIC FOUNDATIONS Starting with Strategy / Setting Our Goals / Defining Our Terms / Structuring Our Study I: STATION SCIENCE 1. Capacity, 2. Variability, 3. Batching II: LINE SCIENCE 4. Flows, 5. Buffering, 6. Push/Pull III: NETWORK SCIENCE 7. Inventory, 8. Risk, 9. Coordination Appendix A: Summary of Notation Appendix B: Supply Chain Science Principles