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Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulations - Softcover

Vandeput, Nicolas

 
9783110673913: Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulations

Synopsis

Inventory Optimization argues that mathematical inventory models can only take us so far with supply chain management. In order to optimize inventory policies, we have to use probabilistic simulations. The book explains how to implement these models and simulations step-by-step, starting from simple deterministic ones to complex multi-echelon optimization.
 
The first two parts of the book discuss classical mathematical models, their limitations, and assumptions, and a quick but effective introduction to Python is provided. Part 3 contains more advanced models that will allow you to optimize your profits, estimate your lost sales and use advanced demand distributions. It also provides an explanation of how you can optimize a multi-echelon supply chain based on a simple yet powerful framework. Part 4 discusses inventory optimization thanks to simulations under custom discrete demand probability functions.
 
Inventory managers, demand planners, supply planners, and academics interested in gaining cost-effective solutions will benefit from the "do-it-yourself" examples and Python programs included in each chapter.

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About the Author

Nicolas Vandeput is a supply chain data scientist specialized in demand forecasting and inventory optimization. He founded SupChains in 2016. SupChains builds demand forecasting and inventory planning models for international companies and delivers forecasts as a service. Nicolas teaches demand forecasting and inventory optimization to master students at CentraleSupélec, Albert School and Mines Paris - PSL. He wrote Data Science for Supply Chain Forecasting, Inventory Optimization: Models and Simulations and Demand Forecasting Best Practices. He organized the VN1 forecasting competition in 2024 and the VN2 inventory competition in 2025.

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