The Supply Chain in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Applications

INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE APPLICATIONS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Multicriteria Decision Making in Ethanol Production Problems: A Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach; Kenneth D. Lawrence, Dinesh R. Pai, Ronald K. Klimberg and Sheila M. Lawrence
From Push to Pull: The Automation and Heuristic Optimization of a Caseless Filler Line in the Dairy Industry; Brian W. Segulin
Optimization of Medical Services: The Supply Chain and Ethical Implications; Daniel J. Miori and Virginia M. Miori
Using Hierarchical Planning to Exploit Supply Chain Flexibility: An Example from the Norwegian Meat Industry; Peter Schütz, Asgeir Tomasgard, and Kristin Tolstad Uggen
Transforming U.S. Army Supply Chains: An Analytical Architecture for Management Innovation; Greg H. Parlier

ANALYTIC PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF SUPPLY CHAIN PROBLEMS
A Determination of the Optimal Level of Collaboration between a Contractor and Its Suppliers under Demand Uncertainty; Seong-Hyun Nam, John Vitton, and Hisashi Kurata
Online Auction Models and Their Impact on Sourcing and Supply Management; John F. Kros and Christopher M. Keller
Analytical Models for Integrating Supplier Selection and Inventory Decisions; Burcu B. Keskin
Inventory Optimization of Small Business Supply Chains with Stochastic Demand; Kathleen Campbell, Gerard Gampagna, Anthony Costanzo and Christopher Matthews

OPTIMIZATION MODELS OF SUPPLY CHAIN PROBLEMS
A Dynamic Programming Approach to the Stochastic Truckload Routing Problem; Virginia M. Miori
Modeling Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Efficient Location/Allocation Decisions; Ronald K. Klimberg, Samuel J. Ratick, Vinay Tavva, Sasanka Vuyyuru, and Daniel Mrazik
Sourcing Models for End-of-Use Products in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain; Kishore K. Pochampally and Surendra M. Gupta
A Bi-Objective Supply Chain Scheduling; Tadeusz Sawik
Applying Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Data Envelopment Analysis to Identify Successful Pharmaceutical Companies; Ronald K. Klimberg, George P. Sillup, George Webster, Harold Rahmlow, and Kenneth D. Lawrence

Biography

Kenneth D. Lawrence, Ph.D., is a professor of Management and Marketing Science and Decision Support Systems in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His professional employment includes over 20 years of technical management experience with AT&T as Director, Decision Support Systems and Marketing Demand Analysis; Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.; Prudential Insurance; and the U.S. Army in forecasting, marketing planning and research, statistical analysis, and operations research. He is a full member of the Graduate Doctoral Faculty of Management at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems. Lawrence has served as the doctoral chairman and thesis advisor for four Rutgers doctoral students. He is a member of the graduate faculty at NJIT in management, transportation, statistics, and industrial engineering. He is also an active participant in professional associations, including the Decision Sciences Institute, Institute of Management Science, Institute of Industrial Engineers, American Statistical Association, and Institute of Forecasters. He has conducted significant funded research projects in health care and transportation.Lawrence is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation and the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and also serves on the editorial boards of Computers and Operations Research and the Journal of Operations Management. His research work has been cited hundreds of times in 74 different journals, including Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Marketing, Sloan Management Review, Management Science, Sloan Management Review, Technometrics, Applied Statistics, Interfaces, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics, and the Journal of the Academy of Mar