This book is aimed at an important and
underserved niche within the supply chain educational market: strategic supply
chain network design. Almost all supply chain professionals need to know about
this discipline, and this book is meant to help them do it well.
Strategic network design is about selecting
the right number, location, and size of warehouse and production facilities. At
the same time, firms will need to determine the territories of each facility,
which product should be made where, and how product should flow through the
supply chain.
Typically, these studies do not produce a
single correct answer. Instead, strategic network design planning requires you
to construct a logical mathematical model of your supply chain, use powerful
optimization engines to sort through the seemingly countless possibilities to
return the optimal solution, and then analyse the results of many different
scenarios to support a good operational decision. Fortunately,
commercially available software takes care of the calculations for you.
However, it is important that you understand what the optimization engine is
doing so you can construct better models and deliver better results.
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