Accurate modeling of a company’s supply chain network provides insights into optimal production, storage locations, and raw materials supply network strategy. The modeling process can last from one ...

Supply chain and logistics managers should be constantly reviewing their network infrastructure and transportation flows and testing them in a modeling environment. The goal is to develop an agile ...

Leaders in supply chain never feel like they’re finished — that their network is ever good and stable. They see it as a living and changing organism that’s subject to change even under the best of ...

Supply chain leaders have been using technology to design and optimize their supply chains for decades. These days, they’re trying to understand the best way to integrate artificial intelligence and ...

The time to discover the biggest supply chain improvement opportunities is during assessment or reassessment of the infrastructure in place; e.g. manufacturing capability, raw material sourcing, major ...

While finance commands internal respect, the supply chain, which is intricately woven into every aspect of the business, tends to be the utilitarian stepchild—meeting demand and controlling costs. The ...

Business Impact: By better understanding its extended supply chain, companies will gain greater improvements in SCM process performance. META Group originally published this article on 27 May 2004 ...

Supply and network design models are constraint-based models. In a supply chain you have orders, suppliers, raw materials, machines, customers and other entities as well. Some orders are big, some ...

Business This supply chain expert revolutionized network design to drive top-line growth. Charan Lalwani has held leadership positions at Amazon, and in 2018, he devised a groundbreaking network ...