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Fuzziness in Supply Chain Management

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 252))

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In this chapter, we shall present some theoretic and practical aspects of employing fuzzy logic and possibility theory in Supply Chain Management (SCM). We will present a wide point of view to our topics by introducing basic concepts of supply chain management and fuzzy logic without requiring any background knowledge from the reader in these areas. First, we will generally present the topic of supply chain management along with some of its classical methods that can be used to work with problems in that area. Then, we will introduce fuzzy logic to supply chain management by incorporating possibility distributions in the mathematical models. Doing the mathematical formulations we will also present methods for dealing with the bullwhip effect using possibility distributions.

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  1. Department of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics,Casa Academica, Perhonkatu 6B, FI-00100, Helsinki, Finland

    Péter Majlender

  2. Department of Information Technologies, Åbo Akademi University, Joukahaisenkatu 3-5 A, FI-20520, Turku, Finland

    Péter Majlender

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  1. Management Faculty, Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Macka, 34367, Istanbul, Turkey

    Cengiz Kahraman

  2. Harry f. Byrd, Jr. School of Business, Shenandoah University, 1460 University Dr., 22601, Winchester, VA, USA

    Mesut Yavuz

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Majlender, P. (2010). Fuzziness in Supply Chain Management. In: Kahraman, C., Yavuz, M. (eds) Production Engineering and Management under Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12052-7_10

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