In today's global economy, supply chains are an essential ingredient to corporate survival and growth. Operations strategy in supply chains must assume an ever-expanding and strategic role of risks that modern enterprises face when they operate in an interdependent supply chain environment. 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. It falls to supply chain managers to identify and to educate corporate mangers on what these critical operational problems and risks involve. This book provides business students and practitioners with the means to understand, to model and to analyze these outstanding issues and problems that are the essential elements in managing supply chains today.

"In today's global economy, supply chains are an essential ingredient to corporate survival and growth. Operations strategy in supply chains must assume an ever-expanding and strategic role of risks that modern enterprises face when they operate in an interdependent supply chain environment. 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. It falls to supply chain managers to identify and to educate corporate managers on what these critical operational problems and risks involve. Supply Chain Games: Operations Management and Risk Valuation provides business students and practitioners with the means to understand, to model and to analyze these outstanding issues and problems that are the essential elements in managing supply chains today. TOC:Introduction.- Supply chains logistics and operations management.- Supply chains games: modeling in a static framework.- Supply chains games: modeling in a multi-period framework.- Supply chains games: modeling in an inter-temporal framework.- Supply chains games: modeling in an inter-temporal framework with periodic review.- Sustainable collaboration in supply chains.- Risk management and supply chains.- Quality and supply chain management.- Appendix: optimality conditions in single and two-player dynamic games.- Subject index."

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.