In today's global economy, operations strategy in supply chains must assume an ever-expanding and strategic role of risks. These operational and strategic facets entail a brand new set of operational problems and risks that have not always been understood or managed very well. This book provides the means to understand, to model and to analyze these outstanding issues and problems that are the essential elements in managing supply chains today.

The recent explosive growth in supply chains, maintaining control over traditional operational and risk management issues, have become even more in complex and at the same time strategic-game-like in their nature. This is the first expository analysis and application of these recent developments in today's economy

Supply Chains and Operations Modeling and Management.- Supply chain operations management.- Supply chain games: modeling in a static framework.- Supply chain games: modeling in a multi-period framework.- Intertemporal Supply Chain Management.- Supply chain games: modeling in an intertemporal framework.- Supply chain games: modeling in an intertemporal framework with periodic review.- Sustainable collaboration in supply chains.- Risk and Supply Chain Management.- Risk and supply chains.- Quality and supply chain management.