Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management

1. A Review of Optimization Methods.- 2. Forecasting.- 3. Planning and Scheduling.- 4. Inventory Control.- 5. Location Theory and Distribution Management.- 6. Epilogue.

Dr. Ioannis T. Christou holds a Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, an MBA degree from Athens University of Economics Business and the National Technical University of Athens, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, USA. He has held senior posts at TransQuest Inc., and Delta Technology Inc., has been an MTS at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, USA, and an area leader in Data and Knowledge Engineering at Intracom S.A., Greece. He has been a consultant for various private and public sector companies in Greece on a variety of business intelligence and SCM and IT related issues, and has developed large-scale MIS systems for Delta S.A. (Greek public electricity utility company), 3-E S.A., Velti S.A., GAP S.A., and others. He developed the LOTO bid-line generation system for Delta Air Lines, and the fraud-detection system for lotteries and online games of chance for Intralot S.A. He has taught Software Engineering and Computer Programming Laboratory as an adjunct assistant professor at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department of the University of Patras, Greece; Production Systems at the Production and Management Engineering Department of the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Business Management for Engineers and Information Systems Modeling at the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; and Modern Methods for Network Optimization at the Doctorate School of Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. Dr. Christou is currently an associate professor at Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece, where he teaches graduate-level courses on systems analysis and design, logistics and supply chain management, and network optimization. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. His research work has appeared in IEEE Transactions on PatternAnalysis

From the reviews:"This work useful as a textbook to teach subjects related to resolving practical problems in supply chain management at a master's level. ... the exercises are excellent vehicles for teaching graduate and PhD students. ... Christou's book is a good reference for researchers and operations research and operations management students who wish to gain a global view of supply chain management using mathematical procedures. Thus, it would be extremely helpful in introducing new students to supply chain management models." (Javier Faulin, Interfaces, Vol. 43 (2), March-April, 2013)