Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface. - List of contributors. - Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Supply chain and supply chain management. - Pt. II. Simulation. 2. Logistics simulation in the chemical industry. 3. Logistic simulation of pipeless plants. - Pt. III. Industrial solutions. 4. Planning large supply chain scenarios with "Quant-based combinatorial optimization". 5. Scheduling and optimization of a copper production process. 6. Stochastic tools in supply chain management. - Pt. IV. Optimization methods. 7. Engineered mixed-integer programming in chemical batch scheduling. 8. MILP optimization models for short-term scheduling of batch processes. 9. Uncertainty conscious scheduling by two-stage stochastic optimization. 10. Scheduling based on reachability analysis of timed automata. - Pt. V. Interaction with ERP systems. 11. Integrated short and midterm scheduling of chemical production processes - a case study. 12. Integration of scheduling with ERP systems. Index.