内容简介
Services requiring parts has become a $1.5 trillion business annually worldwide，creating a tremendous incentive to manage the logistics of these parts efficiently by making planning and operational decisions in a rational and rigorous manner。This book provides a broad overview of modeling approaches and solution methodologies for addressing service parts inventory problems found in high-powered technology and aerospace applications。The focus in this work is on the management of high cost，low demand rate service parts found in multi-echelon settings。The text may be used in a variety of courses for first-year graduate students or senior undergraduates，as well as for practitioners，requiring only a background in stochastic processes and optimization。It will serve as an excellent reference for key mathematical concepts and a guide to modeling a variety of multi-echelon service parts planning and operational problems。