Distributed decision making in supply chain management

The paper identifies different classes of distributed decision making problems in supply chain management. Since, these problem classes have been developed in various sciences like applied mathematics, operations research, economics and artificial intelligence, the paper gives a systematic overview as to the specific contribution each single science is providing, particularly indicating possible synergies. Moreover, it points to those distributed decision-making problems that prove to be of major relevance for supply chain management. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.