TY - BOOK AU - Muckstadt,Jack ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Principles of Supply Chain Management and Their Implications T2 - Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, SN - 9783031661129 AV - T57.6-57.97 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer KW - Operations research KW - Management science KW - Social sciences KW - Mathematics KW - Operations Research, Management Science KW - Mathematics in Business, Economics and Finance N1 - Preface -- Principles of Supply Chain Management -- Analysis of Ordering Patterns in Serial Supply Chains -- Pooling in Supply Chains -- Mathematics of Pooling -- Including Capacity Limitations in Planning Models -- Real-time Execution Systems -- Design and Operation of the Vaccine Distribution Supply Chain -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - The text begins with a discussion of the basic principles of supply chain management and some attributes of certain industries. The remainder of the text is devoted to developing and applying mathematical concepts needed to address the many issues associated with managing supply chains and, in particular, uncertainty, in a variety of real world settings. In particular, the final chapter is devoted to the design and operation of a vaccine distribution system during a pandemic along with a critique of the way the system used in the United States performed UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66112-9 ER -