Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Kunal Kanti Ghosh -- Foreword / by Gautam Sinha -- Understanding supply chain -- Inventory models -- Sourcing decisions -- Production planning decisions -- Production control decisions -- Data mining and aggregation model -- Transportation and network planning models -- Location and network design models -- Simulation and stochastic models -- Remanufacturing models : way forward.

"An easy-to-read textbook that will help students understand and appreciate the concepts and decision-making processes of supply chain management through analytics. This book provides the concepts, strategies and models with their solutions related to supply chains. Using accessible quantitative models, it provides a unified framework for supply chain analytics for products right from sourcing to manufacturing to delivery, and to return for remanufacturing to close the supply chain. The book synthesizes a collection of analytical models in the context of both formulation and solution of the problems in all the areas of supply chain"--

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