Inventory & Supply Chain Management Theory and Research

3 units

This course is designed for PhD students in the area of operations and supply chain management. From a theoretical perspective, this course covers the fundamental theory of inventory and supply chain management for deterministic systems and focuses on establishing structural results for optimal policies and deriving solution algorithms. The course content will include book chapters and (published/working) research articles. We will run in parallel to the course some "recent hot topic research areas" mini seminars. The hot topics might be outside of the traditional inventory and supply chain management domain, but they will still heavily rely on operational theory fundamentals and have immediate applicability to operations and supply chain management. This course is for doctoral students only.