Tan Miller – författare

Practical Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics provides essential analytical techniques for managing distribution, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, network design, customer logistics, and procurement across the supply chain.This book delivers practical decision-analysis methodologies that supply chain professionals can immediately implement in their daily operations. Readers will gain a working knowledge of fundamental logistics analytical methods that offer critical quantitative perspectives for better decision-making. The text presents a comprehensive range of techniques with step-by-step guidance, real-world examples, and actionable insights that bridge theory and practice. Each chapter builds analytical competency through accessible explanations and implementable frameworks, enabling professionals to address specific logistics management challenges efficiently while developing their quantitative skill set for long-term career advancement.University lecturers will find it complements traditional supply chain textbooks and can also serve as the primary text for a first supply chain analytics class, while logistics professionals at all levels can use it as a reference guide for developing analyses to address specific management decisions.

Practical Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics provides essential analytical techniques for managing distribution, transportation, inventory, manufacturing, network design, customer logistics, and procurement across the supply chain.This book delivers practical decision-analysis methodologies that supply chain professionals can immediately implement in their daily operations. Readers will gain a working knowledge of fundamental logistics analytical methods that offer critical quantitative perspectives for better decision-making. The text presents a comprehensive range of techniques with step-by-step guidance, real-world examples, and actionable insights that bridge theory and practice. Each chapter builds analytical competency through accessible explanations and implementable frameworks, enabling professionals to address specific logistics management challenges efficiently while developing their quantitative skill set for long-term career advancement.University lecturers will find it complements traditional supply chain textbooks and can also serve as the primary text for a first supply chain analytics class, while logistics professionals at all levels can use it as a reference guide for developing analyses to address specific management decisions.

In today's competitive global economy, a firm's market position and bottom-line financial performance is closely linked to its supply chain performance. All too often considerable managerial resources are directed towards planning activities and processes with little in the way of tangible results and outcomes. What supply chain executives require is the know-how to efficiently and effectively direct their planning activities so that the results lead to better business decisions from the long-term down to day-to-day operations.

In this book, we present proven, practical management frameworks and techniques used by the authors to support supply chain operations management and planning in private industry. These frameworks describe supply chain strategic planning and project selection techniques, integrated manufacturing-distribution planning and scheduling approaches, performance measurement and balanced scorecard methodologies, customer logistics and inventory deployment decision support systems, and other well-tested management frameworks. The book is intended for supply chain managers and executives in private industry and the public sector, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of leading edge, real world approaches for supply chain strategic planning and scheduling, decision support, project development and selection, performance measurement and many other key activities.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making. Effective use of analytics requires an understanding of both fundamental and advanced logistics decision-making techniques and methodologies. Further, logistics professionals must organize and view these analytics-based decision support tools through well-structured planning frameworks.In this book, we illustrate and explain a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and inventory management. We also describe how to organize these analytics-based tools and strategies through logistics frameworks that span strategic, tactical and operational planning and scheduling decisions.This book is intended for logistics professionals to use as a reference document that offers ideas and guidance for addressing specific logistics management decisions and challenges, and it will also serve as a valuable resource or secondary text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.