Inventory Optimization and Multi-Echelon Planning Software - Softcover

Snapp, Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983715505 ISBN 13: 9780983715504

Publisher: Scm Focus, 2012

Synopsis

How This Book is Unique

This books explains the emerging technology of inventory optimization and multi-echelon (MEIO) supply planning. It takes a complex subject and effectively communicates what MEIO is about in plain English terms. This is the only book currently available that describes MEIO for practitioners, rather for mathematicians or academics. The book describes with text and graphics how inventory optimization allows the entire supply plan to be controlled with service levels, and how multi echelon technology answers the question of where to locate inventory in the supply network. This is the only book on inventory optimization and multi echelon planning which compares how different best of breed vendors apply MEIO technology to their products. It also explains why this technology is so important for supply planning and why companies should be actively investigating this method. The book moves smoothly between concepts to screen shots and descriptions of how the screens are configured and used. This provides the reader with some of the most intriguing areas of functionality within a variety of applications.

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What You Can Expect from the Book

• Detailed explanations of the twin technologies of inventory optimization and multi echelon planning.
• The importance of having optimization customized for a supply chain domain.
• The concept of effective lead time and why it is so important to understanding multi echelon planning.
• How inventory optimization compares to cost optimization.
• How MEIO's assumptions are different from all other supply planning method and what this means for its capabilities.
• MEIO and simulation.
• How MEIO processes the supply network.
• How MEIO can be used to strongly tie sales to operations in the estimation of pricing for new business.
• The pros and cons of setting service level at different areas in the application.

A Book Based in Reality

The book provides many examples from real life project experiences, the emphasis being on the reality of MEIO projects.

Interconnected to Web Information

In order the keep the book at a manageable and easily readable length, the book also provides numerous links out to the SCM Focus site, where supporting articles allow readers to get into more detail on topics that interest them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scm Focus
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983715505
• ISBN 13: 9780983715504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184