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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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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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