Supply Chain and Operations Analytics

This book presents the 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, the 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. The book synthesizes a collection of models in all areas of the supply chain – such as sourcing, inventory, production planning and control, forecasting of demand, transportation, network planning and design, data aggregation and mining, and the return of products – in the context of both the formulation and solution of the problems in each area using suitable software and Excel Solver for ease of understanding. The use of simulation and stochastic and system design models are added attractions of the book.

This book will be useful to students, researchers and faculty working in the field of supply chain management, operations management and industrial engineering, both at graduate and research levels. It will also be an invaluable companion to consultants and practitioners, working with models and modelling systems, helping them to make better supply chain decisions.

Rabindranath Bhattacharya retired from Sundaram Fasteners Ltd, Chennai in 2006 (a TVS group of companies) as General Manager (Materials) and subsequently worked as an advisor in materials management and strategic planning at Ucal Fuel Systems Ltd, Chennai, from which he retired in 2009.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Jadavpur University, master’s degree from Allahabad University and PhD in Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras after retirement from service. He has been teaching MBA students for more than a decade at leading business schools of India as an adjunct faculty.

Anindita Maitra Bhattacharyya is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Amity University Kolkata. She obtained her PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Applied Mathematics and carried out her post-doctoral work as a scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.