Supply Chain Disruption Management: Using Stochastic Mixed Integer Programming

This book deals with stochastic combinatorial optimization problems in supply chain disruption management, with a particular focus on management of disrupted flows in customer-driven supply chains. The problems are modeled using a scenario based stochastic mixed integer programming to address riskneutral, risk-averse and mean-risk decision-making in the presence of supply chain disruption risks. The book focuses on integrated disruption mitigation and recovery decision-making and innovative, computationally efficient multi-portfolio approach to supply chain disruption management, e.g., selection of primary and recovery supply portfolios, demand portfolios, capacity portfolios, etc.

Numerous computational examples throughout the book, modeled in part on realworld supply chain disruption management problems, illustrate the material presented and provide managerial insights. Many propositions formulated in the book lead to a deep understanding of the properties of developed stochastic mixed integer programs and optimal solutions. In the computational examples, the proposed mathematical programming models are solved using an advanced algebraic modeling language such as AMPL and CPLEX, GUROBI and XPRESS solvers. The knowledge and tools provided in the book allow the reader to model and solve supply chain disruption management problems using commercially available software for mixed integer programming. Using the end-of chapter problems and exercises, the monograph can also be used as a textbook for an advanced course in supply chain risk management.

After an introductory chapter, the book is then divided into six main parts.  Part I addresses selection of a supply portfolio; Part II considers integrated selection of supply portfolio and scheduling; Part III looks at integrated, equitably efficient selection of supply portfolio and scheduling; Part IV examines integrated selection of primary and recovery supply and demand portfolios and production and inventory scheduling, Part V deals with selection of resilient supply portfolio in multitier supply chain networks; and Part VI addresses selection of cybersecurity safequards portfolio for disruption management of information flows in supply chains.

Tadeusz Sawik is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland and at Reykjavik University in Reykjavik, Iceland. He has published numerous books (including Production Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems, Springer, 1998 and Scheduling in Supply Chains Using Mixed Integer Programming, Wiley, 2011), and more than 150 individual articles in refereed journals. His current research interests are in the area of logistics and supply chain management, operations management, supply chain risk management, homeland and cyber security, scheduling, stochastic optimization and integer programming. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services (AGH University Press).