(Ebook) Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain by Robert A. Davis(auth.) ISBN 9781118584569, 9781118747841, 1118584562, 1118747844

(Ebook) Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain by Robert A. Davis(auth.) ISBN 9781118584569, 9781118747841, 1118584562, 1118747844

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 provides a business look at why present inventory systems sub-optimize the supply chain and faulty replenishment processes lead to wasted time and effort. Straightforward and clearly written, this book allows readers to come away with a good understanding of why optimized inventory and replenishment helps overcome in-system weaknesses and deliver results. Discusses how multi-echelon inventory optimization and replenishment enables installed systems to go from a sequential, "islands of efficiency" approach to a systematic distribution system working as a complete networkProvides case studies throughoutReveals how optimized inventory and replenishment delivers results across industry verticalsWith a historical view of the three major supply chain efforts of the last thirty years, this book discusses mathematical shortcuts set up in the transitional and supply chain management systems that make it very difficult for companies to attain supply chain excellence.Content: Chapter 1 Creating Demand‐Driven Supply (pages 1–16): Chapter 2 Achieving Timely and Accurate Responses to Customer Demand (pages 17–38): Chapter 3 Just‐in‐Time and Enterprise Resource Planning Rise Together (pages 39–61): Chapter 4 How Does Days of Supply Wreak Havoc on the Supply Chain? (pages 63–82): Chapter 5 What Will You Accomplish with Inventory Optimization? (pages 83–103): Chapter 6 Fitting Unlimited Optimization into a Constraining World (pages 105–123): Chapter 7 Reviewing the Three Proof of Value Engagements (pages 125–156): Chapter 8 Inventory Optimization in the Real World: Matas A/S (pages 157–180): Chapter 9 A Consultant's View of Inventory Optimization (pages 181–200): Chapter 10 Pulling it All Together (pages 201–214):