This book presents concepts, strategies, and decision-making processes of supply chain and operations management through simple to advanced analytics. It provides the tools necessary to comprehend supply chain and operations management, quantitatively and analytically, through exercises and examples.
Using accessible quantitative models, this volume provides a unified framework for supply chain analytics for products?right from sourcing to manufacturing to delivery and remanufacturing, which closes the supply chain. This book synthesizes a collection of models in all the areas of supply chain like Sourcing, Inventory, Production planning and control, forecasting of demand, Transportation, Network planning and Design, Data aggregation and mining and return of products in the context of both formulation and solution of the problems in each area using suitable software and Excel Solver for the ease of understanding. Use of simulation, stochastic and system design models are adde
