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With the pressure of time-based competition increasing, and customers demanding faster service, availability of service parts becomes a critical component of manufacturing and servicing operations. Service Parts Management first focuses on intermittent demand forecasting and then on the management of service parts inventories. It guides researchers and practitioners in finding better management solutions to their problems and is both an excellent reference for key concepts and a leading resource for further research. Demand forecasting techniques are presented for parametric and nonparametric approaches, and multi echelon cases and inventory pooling are also considered. Inventory control is examined in the continuous and periodic review cases, while the following are all examined in the context of forecasting: • error measures, • distributional assumptions, and • decision trees. Service Parts Management provides the reader with an overview and a detailed treatment of the current state of the research available on the forecasting and inventory management of items with intermittent demand. It is a comprehensive review of service parts management and provides a starting point for researchers, postgraduate students, and anyone interested in forecasting or managing inventory.

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely Research Agenda explores humanitarian logistics as an academic discipline in the wake of major disasters and conflicts worldwide. It establishes new methods of approach and extends the discussion to include recent developments since the COVID-19 pandemic.Focusing on previously underexplored areas, this Research Agenda presents a provocative exploration of supply chains for humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and complex emergencies, as well as necessary structural changes. Expert academics and practitioners in the field provide an overview of trends and developments and grant a comprehensive coverage of humanitarian operations. They evaluate the importance of NGOs and nonprofit international actors, while assessing the connection to commercial logistics in practical management. Chapters look ahead to important avenues of study, particularly the need for robustness of humanitarian aid infrastructures in the face of increased impacts from conflict and unpredictable weather events.Academics and students in humanitarian operations, logistics, supply chain management as well as political science, international relations, and business studies will greatly benefit from this Research Agenda’s invaluable insights. It is also a crucial resource for humanitarian professionals and policymakers.

With the pressure of time-based competition increasing, and customers demanding faster service, availability of service parts becomes a critical component of manufacturing and servicing operations. Service Parts Management first focuses on intermittent demand forecasting and then on the management of service parts inventories. It guides researchers and practitioners in finding better management solutions to their problems and is both an excellent reference for key concepts and a leading resource for further research. Demand forecasting techniques are presented for parametric and nonparametric approaches, and multi echelon cases and inventory pooling are also considered. Inventory control is examined in the continuous and periodic review cases, while the following are all examined in the context of forecasting: • error measures, • distributional assumptions, and • decision trees. Service Parts Management provides the reader with an overview and a detailed treatment of the current state of the research available on the forecasting and inventory management of items with intermittent demand. It is a comprehensive review of service parts management and provides a starting point for researchers, postgraduate students, and anyone interested in forecasting or managing inventory.

This volume provides a survey of current research problems and results in humanitarian operations research.  Additionally, it discusses existing applications of humanitarian operations research, and considers new research efforts that clearly extend existing research and applications.  The book is divided into three sections that provide an overview of the subject, a look at the theory, and an examination of applications.The overview section presents chapters on modeling approaches and metrics to evaluate nonprofit operations; chief findings of fieldwork research in disaster response logistics; the use of cash as a form of relief; and measuring markets that supply cash-based humanitarian interventions.The theory section includes chapters that examine the partner proliferation problem in disaster response networks; a case study of humanitarian logistics that examines how humanitarian culture informs change adoption; and a look at the current state of the art for information visibility in humanitarian operations.Finally, the application section focuses on blood products, vaccines, and food assistance, with individual chapters on efficient inventorying and distribution of blood products during disasters; a detailed look at modeling in the context of the vaccine supply chain; a framework for achieving equity, effectiveness, and efficiency in food bank operations; and a spatio-temporal vulnerability assessment of the resilience of a population affected by sudden lack of food.