Supply Chain Network Design Applying Optimization and Analytics to the Global Supply Chain

Name: Supply Chain Network Design Applying Optimization and Analytics to the Global Supply Chain
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ISBN: 9780133017373

ISBN-10: 0133017370

ISBN-13: 9780133017373

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi, Jay Jayaraman

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Using strategic supply chain network design, companies can achieve dramatic savings from their supply chains. Now, experts at IBM and Northwestern University have brought together both the rigorous principlesandthe practical applications you need to master. You’ll learn how to use supply chain network design to select the right number, location, territory, and size of warehouses, plants, and production lines; and optimize the flow of all products through your supply chain even if extends around the globe. The authors present better ways to decide what to manufacture internally, where to make these products, which products to outsource, and which suppliers to use. They guide you in more…

Book details

List price: $93.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: FT Press
Publication date: 8/22/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



Preface



Introduction and Basic Building Blocks



The Value of Supply Chain Network Design



Intuition Building with Center of Gravity Models



Locating Facilities Using a Distance-Based Approach



Alternative Service Levels and Sensitivity Analysis



Adding Capacity to the Model



Adding Costs to Two-Echelon Supply Chains



Adding Outbound Transportation to the Model



Introducing Facility Fixed and Variable Costs



Baselines and Optimal Baselines



Advanced Modeling and Expanding to Multiple Echelons



Three-Echelon Supply Chain Modeling



Adding Multiple Products and Multisite Production Sourcing



Multi-Objective Optimization



How to Get Industrial-Strength Results



The Art of Modeling



Data Aggregation In Network Design



Creating a Group and Running a Project



Case Study Wrap Up



Case Study: JPMS Chemicals Case Study


Index