Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise begins to answer the question of how to bridge the gap from mathematical modeling and optimization techniques, to practical solutions of enterprise operations. Mathematically distinct from classical supply chain management, this burgeoning research area has proven to be useful and applicable to a wide variety of industries; for example, pharmaceutical, chemical, transportation, and shipping, to name a few. This book consists of high quality research results and may serve as a "one-stop shop" to learn about several industrial problems and logistics challenges, and solution techniques using recent advances in computational optimization.

"In a world with highly competitive markets and economic instability due to capitalization, industrial competition has increasingly intensified. In order for many industries to survive and succeed, they need to develop highly effective coordination between supply chain partners, dynamic collaborative and strategic alliance relationships, and efficient logistics and supply chain network designs. Consequently, in the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest among academic researchers and industrial practitioners in innovative supply chain and logistics models, algorithms, and coordination policies. Mathematically distinct from classical supply chain management, this emerging research area has been proven to be useful and applicable to a wide variety of industries. This book brings together recent advances in supply chain and logistics research and computational optimization that apply to a collaborative environment in the enterprise."

I Process Industry.- Challenges in Enterprise Wide Optimization for the Process Industries.- Multi-Product Inventory Logistics Modeling in the Process Industries.- Modeling and Managing Uncertainty in Process Planning and Scheduling.- A Relative Robust Optimization Approach for Full Factorial Scenario Design of Data Uncertainty and Ambiguity.- II Supply Chain and Logistics Design.- An Enterprise Risk Management Model for Supply Chains.- Notes On Using Optimization And DSS Techniques to Support Supply Chain And Logistics Operations.- On the Quadratic Programming Approach for Hub Location Problems.- Nested Partitions and Its Applications to the Intermodal Hub Location Problem.- III Supply Chain Operation.- Event-Time Models for Supply Chain Scheduling.- A Dynamic and Data-Driven Approach to the News Vendor Problem Under Cyclical Demand.- Logic-based MultiObjective Optimization for Restoration Planning.- IV Networking and Transportation.- The Aircraft Maintenance Routing Problem.- The Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem for Minimum Unmet Demand.- Collaboration in Cargo Transportation.- Communication Models for a Cooperative Network of Autonomous Agents.