Supply Chain Planning and Analytics: The Right Product in the Right Place at the Right Time

by Gerald Feigin

Supply chain planning can feel daunting and confusing and so muchmore. How can you make decisions about how many goods to procure,make, and deliver before knowing exactly what the demand for productsis going to be?Gerald Feigin, a partner at Analytics Operations Engineering, hasanswers. Feigin helps you and other decision makers understand thedynamic information about future demand, available production capacity,and sources of supply. This book smartly focuses on the threeinterlinked processes that compose effective supply chain planning, sales and operations planning, and inventory andsupply planning. When executed well, these planning processes willhelp a company to achieve its targeted balance between efficiency andresponsiveness.Read more and learn specifics about these processes, and how theyare interconnected and the practical challenges of implementing them.Feigin also explains the important ways in which analytical toolsand methods can be utilized to make better supply chain planningdecisions.

218 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2011