Summary

Supply chains are now at the center-stage of business performance of manufacturing and service organizations. In this article, we have provided a bird's eye view of major decision issues in the design and operation of high performance supply chains. We have surveyed the use of mathematical and simulation models can play in supply chain management. We have also outlined a current research effort at the Indian Institute of Science in building an object oriented decision support system for supply chain management. For more details on this research, the work by Biswas [#!biswasthesis!#] may be consulted. For a comprehensive treatment of the various issues in supply chain management, the recent book by Viswanadham [#!nvbook!#] is recommended.