xxviii, 498 pages : 27 cm + "While this text's original structure and philosophy have been kept intact, in this edition the authors place an increasing importance on finding or developing 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-the-art models, concepts, and solution methods that are important for the design, control, operation, and management of supply chain systems."--Jacket Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-498) and index System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista; minimum 256 MB main memory, 512 recommended; 10 MB or better free hard disk space; Microsoft Excel 2000 or better; Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or better. An active Internet connection is also required to access some of the Web pages that are linked from this CD