finding or developing an effective frameworks that illustrate today's important supply chain issues. At the same time, motivated by new industry developments, they have added new material on a variety of topics, while increasing the coverage of others. Additionally, the authors continue to provide state-of-art models, concepts, and solution methods that are important for the design, control, operation, and management of supply chain systems. New to the Third Edition: - Chapter 4 on the supply contracts for strategic and commodity components - Chapter 7 on distribution strategies, with a focus on the impact of inventory pooling and customer search - Chapter 13 on smart pricing and revenue management in the supply chains - Chapter 15 on technology standards such as Service Oriented Architecture and RFID

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