Contemporary issues in supply chain management and logistics / Anthony M. Pagano and Mellissa Gyimah.

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1. Introduction, about this book -- 2. Technology trends in logistics and supply chain management / Matthew Liotine, Anthony M. Pagano, and Siddhartha Varma Gadiraju -- 3. The science of inventory optimization: profit optimally managing change and variability in the supply chain / William E. Stillman -- 4. The demand prediction of location-dependent services / Fazle Karim and Houshang Darabi -- 5. Supply chain education: are university courses providing the background that companies want for new employees? / Mellissa Gyimah -- 6. An agent-based supply chain and freight transportation model: case study for Chicago metropolitan area / Zahra Pourabdollahi, Behzad Karimi, Kouros Mohammadian, and Kazuya Kawamura -- 7. Kaplan-Meier estimators for single product demand using inventory level time-series / J. Christopher Westland -- 8. Public-private partnerships (PPP) in transportation: an analysis of alternatives / Anthony M. Pagano -- About the authors -- Index.

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This book is a collection of chapters on issues we face today in the world of Supply Chain Management. While there are a number of college text books related to specific areas within logistics and supply chain issues, there are very few general supply chain management "trends" books. Thus, this book consists of seven dynamic, current and informative chapters that cover a variety of cutting-edge supply chain topics. There is an untapped market to create a supply chain and logistics book to be used in college classes that uses examples in the United States. This interdisciplinary book is of use to both graduate students and professionals working in the field because of its cutting-edge approach to emerging global issues. The book contains new, original research papers written by academics from the fields of engineering, transportation, information and decision systems, marketing, and, of course, supply chain management and logistics.

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