Labor And Supply Chain Networks Anna Nagurney by Anna Nagurney 9783031208546, 3031208544 instant download after payment.

Supply chains have become front page news in the past several years driven, in large part, by disruptions in the COVID-19 pandemic, which have led to various shortages of products as well as delays in their deliveries. In addition to the pandemic, climate change, conflicts, and wars are further exacerbating supply chain problems.
Behind supply chains, whether those associated with your favorite food products, or life-saving medicines and supplies, or high tech products that make innovation and connectivity possible, are workers. This book was written to bring the laborers behind our supply chain networks to the forefront.
In this book, I explore prominent issues concerning supply chain networks and labor theoretically, qualitatively, and computationally, with the support of numerous case studies based on solved numerical examples. The supply chain network models with labor range from perishable product food ones to models for blood service organizations and disaster management. The network topologies of the various problems provide graphical representations, and the underlying behavior of the cognizant decision-makers and stake-holders is captured along with their interactions. Both optimization models and game theory models are constructed with insights as to the impacts of various bounds on labor availability as well as wages. A plethora of disruptions is considered and metrics for supply chain network resilience introduced.
For easy reference, this book includes an Appendix that provides the foundations of the underlying mathematical methodologies used in this book. The audience for this book includes researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers, in different disciplines, such as operations research and economics,
who are interested in wide-ranging issues surrounding supply chain networks and labor that the world is now facing.