Analysis and Algorithms for Service Parts Supply Chains

• Background: Analysis of (s-1, s) and Order-Up-To Policies.- Background Concepts: An Introduction to the (s-1, s) Policy under Poisson and Compound Poisson Demand.- An Exact Model for a Depot-Base Two Echelon Inventory and Repair System.- Tactical Planning Models for Managing Recoverable Items.- A Continuous Time, Multi-Echelon, Multi-Item System with Time-Based Service Level Constraints.- Lateral Resupply and Pooling in Multi-Echelon Systems.- Capacity-limited Systems.- Extension of Palm’s Theorem to Nonstationary Demand Processes.- Real-time Execution Systems.

From the reviews:"This book, covering ten chapters, presents the state of the art relating to service parts inventory systems and supply chain algorithms. … Each chapter contains a set of problems for the reader to explore the algorithmic tools presented in this book, which concludes with a very useful set of references and index." (Efstratios Rappos, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1080, 2006)"The contents of the book reflect some of the research interests and experiences of the author related to the mathematical study of ‘service parts systems’. … to make the reader aware of a larger set of materials on the topic, he provides an extensive bibliography on the subject. A good complement is an interesting list of exercises that seek to show first applications to oriented cases." (Antonio Gómez-Corral, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 c)