A company must develop the "AAA" capabilities of agility, adaptability, and alignment in its supply chain to compete in a dynamic global environment profitably. However, as businesses face new challenges with increased environmental and social sustainability expectations, they must expand these...

Large companies were concerned about their supply chains with environmental and social sustainability and disruption from natural disasters, conflict, and trade disagreements even before the advent of Covid-19. The additional challenges presented by Covid-19 in 2020 are “extreme” in being...

Floods are the most frequent category of disasters worldwide. Among all geographical regions, Asia has suffered the most. While there are several ongoing humanitarian efforts and initiatives, we believe there is a new opportunity to coordinate "last mile" humanitarian efforts in the event of a...

We believe that research, teaching, and practice are becoming increasingly disengaged from one another in the OR/MS ecosystem. This ecosystem comprises researchers, educators, and practitioners in its core along with end users, universities, and funding agencies. Continuing disengagement will...

We show how to extend the demand planning stage of the sales-and-operations-planning (S&OP) process with a spreadsheet implementation of a stochastic programming model that determines the supply requirement while optimally trading off risks of unmet demand, excess inventory and inadequate...

Introduction: A Long View of Research and Practice in Operations Research and Management Science -- A Long View of the Past -- Economic Planning Models for India in the 1960s -- The Persistence and Effectiveness of Large-Scale Mathematical Programming Strategies: Projection, Outer Linearization,...

Supply Chain Risk Management -- Risk Identification -- Risk Assesment -- Mitigating Risks -- Response as a Mitigation Approach -- How do Global Manufacturing Companies Mitigate Supply Chain Risks -- Strategic Approaches for mitigating Supply Chain Risks -- Tactical Approaches for Mitigating...