Decision making at the enterprise level often encompass not only production operations and
product R&D but other strategic functions such as financial planning and marketing. With the
aim of maximizing growth and a firm¿s value companies often focus on co-ordinating these
functional components as well as traditional hierarchical decision levels. Understanding this
interplay can enhance enterprise capabilities of adaptation and response to uncertainties
arising from internal processes as well as the external environment. This book presents
concepts methods tools and solutions based on mathematical programming which provides the
quantitative support needed for integrated decision-making and ultimately for improving the
allocation of overall corporate resources (e.g. materials cash and personnel). Through a
systems perspective the integrated planning of the supply chain also promotes activities of
reuse reduction and recycling for achieving more sustainable environmental impacts of
production distribution networks. Thus this book presents for the first time a unique
integrated vision of the Enterprise Supply Chain Planning and provides a comprehensive account
of the state of the art models methods and tools available to address the above mentioned
features of the modern supply chain. It offers a comprehensive review of the associated
literature of supply chain management and then systematically builds on this knowledge base to
develop the mathematical models representing each of the core functional units and decision
levels of the corporation and shows how they can be integrated into a holistic decision problem
formulation. Abundant illustrations and tables help maximize reader insights into the problems
discussed with several case studies and industry application also examined. This book is
intended as a textbook for academics (PhD MSc) researchers and industry decision-makers who
are involved in the design retrofit and evaluation of alternative scenarios for the
improvement of the supply chain.
