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Forecasting,nd, greatly assisting in its survival. The ability to foretell the future has always been a major source of power. On the other hand, the example of Cassandra, the ancient princess who could clearly see and prophesize catastrophic near-future events but was dismissed as insane by her people, undersc

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Epilogue,ent. The focus of this book has been on .: rigorous modeling and analysis of the problem at hand, and systematic development of efficient algorithms for solving it. Starting with a review of the major ideas behind linear, nonlinear and combinatorial optimization, we discussed the methods for demand

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Inventory Control,, engineers and managers alike, and continues to this day, in both fundamental as well as niche aspects of inventory theory and control. Throughout this chapter, it is assumed that stocked items are non-perishable and therefore have no life-time limitations.

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Epilogue,g them were presented. Important developments in the field of optimization algorithm design as well as in the fields of computer architecture and hardware design have made it possible to solve NP-hard problems arising in Supply Chain Management that were completely out of reach just 10 years ago.

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advanced algorithms for some of the most challenging problem.Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management. presents some of the most important methods and tools available for modeling and solving problems arising in the context of supply chain management. In the context of this book, “solving pro

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Forecasting,, which attempt to measure and predict macro-economic quantities such as business cycles, inflation rates, money supply and currency exchange rates, (b) technological forecasts, whose main purpose is to predict imminent and upcoming technological break-through and innovation, and to a lesser degree