Applications and Opportunities for Operations Research in Internet-Enabled Supply Chains and Electronic Marketplaces

Manmohan S. Sodhi
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Manmohan S. Sodhi: Scometrics, 1100 North Dearborn, Suite 909, Chicago, Illinois 60610

Interfaces, 2001, vol. 31, issue 2, 56-69

Abstract: The Internet is creating opportunities to apply optimization. Firms can use operations research (OR) to improve their supply-chain performance within the enterprise whether their supply chains are being Internet-enabled or not. They can increase benefits by using OR to improve planning and execution in Internet-enabled supply chains with an expanded physical scope that includes vendors and customers and with an expanded functional scope that includes product design, marketing, and customer-relationship management.

Keywords: COMPUTERS—SYSTEM DESIGN-OPERATION; INVENTORY—PRODUCTION-APPLICATIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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