Demand-driven inventory optimization and replenishment : creating a more efficient supply chain /

"Use demand driven optimized inventory and replenishment to overcome your supply chain weaknesses, and deliver business-maximizing resultsReviewing the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that you can attain a demand-driven supply, Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment pr...

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Main Author: Davis, Robert A., 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2013]
Series:Wiley & SAS business series
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Creating Demand-Driven Supply; THE PATH TO DEMAND-DRIVEN SUPPLY; SHIFTING FROM SUPPLY-DRIVEN TO DEMAND-DRIVEN METHODOLOGIES; So You Think You Can Do Better?; MOVING TO A DEMAND-DRIVEN SUPPLY; CREATING MY ISLAND OF EFFICIENCY; WHAT IS AN ISLAND OF EFFICIENCY?; The Intended Island of Efficiency; The Unintended Island of Efficiency; NOTES; CHAPTER 2 Achieving Timely and Accurate Responses to Customer Demand; PUSH AND PULL SUPPLY CHAINS.
  • ENTER TOYOTA AND THE KANBAN SYSTEMFROM KANBAN TO JUST-IN-TIME PRODUCTION; WHAT IS NEEDED FOR A JIT SYSTEM TO WORK EFFICIENTLY?; A BROADER VIEW OF JIT/KANBAN IN ACTION; THE KNOWN DEMAND BECOMES THE PREDICTABLE DEMAND; THE JIT PRODUCTION SUPPLY CHAIN WEAKNESSES BECOME AMPLIFIED IN THE DISTRIBUTION CHAIN; SOME DISTRIBUTION ISSUES; THE CUSTOMER PUSHES BACK; THE SQUEEZE IS ON; CREATING AN EFFICIENT SUPPLY CHAIN USING JIT FUNCTIONALITY; PUSH-PULL TIPPING POINTS; IN SEARCH OF TRUE DEMAND; NOTES; CHAPTER 3 Just-in-Time and Enterprise Resource Planning Rise Together; DENORMALIZED TABLES.
  • SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATIONUPSTREAM SERVICE LEVELS; ACCUMULATED DEMAND VARIANCE; MULTIPLE HIERARCHIES OF SERVICE LEVEL REQUIREMENTS; THE EFFECTS OF ERP SHORTCOMINGS; The Result of Performing High-Powered Analytics and Optimization with Normalized Tables; SHIFTING COSTS ON A BALANCE SHEET; MOVING THE FOCUS AWAY FROM INVENTORY TO REPLENISHMENT; Segmentation; Monitoring; Reacting; THE LONG TAIL; MAKING MISTAKES FASTER; WORKING WITH ONE HAND TIED BEHIND YOUR BACK; SO, HERE WE ARE; NOTES; CHAPTER 4 How Does Days of Supply Wreak Havoc on the Supply Chain?; RULE-OF-THUMB DAYS/WEEKS OF SUPPLY EXPOSED.
  • INEFFICIENCIES OF RULE-OF-THUMB DAYS OF SUPPLYTURNING DAYS OF SUPPLY ON ITS HEAD; CREATING THE EFFICIENCY ENVELOPE; THE JOURNEY, SO FAR; NOTES; CHAPTER 5 What Will You Accomplish with Inventory Optimization?; HOW DOES INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION IMPROVE THE ERP SYSTEMS?; DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVENTORY POLICIES AND REPLENISHMENT PLANS; THE NETWORK STRUCTURE; THE SERVICE LEVEL; THE LEAD TIME AND LEAD-TIME VARIANCE; ORDERING RULES; DEMAND; DEVELOPING POLICY OUTPUTS; The Single Echelon; The Two-Echelon Distributions; The Multi-Echelon Distribution with Replenishment.
  • CHAPTER 6 Fitting Unlimited Optimization into a Constraining WorldTHE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN REPLENISHMENT PLANNING; HOW ALERTS TAKE ON MORE SIGNIFICANCE WHEN CUSTOMER SERVICE IS PARAMOUNT; TIME; SPACE; THE COMINGLING OF DEMAND; THE SHORT SUPPLY OR ALLOCATED PRODUCT; WHERE DOES "OPTIMIZED" REPLENISHMENT NEED TO GO IN ORDER TO ENCOMPASS THE ENTIRE DISTRIBUTION CHAIN?; THE UPSTREAM REACTION; MOVING UPSTREAM REACTIONS INTO REAL REPLENISHMENT; Turn Volume versus Promotional Volume; The Single-Source/Single-Delivery/Short-Term Event; The Single-Source/Single-Delivery/Long-Term Event.