Управление товарным потоком. Руководство по оптимизации логистических цепочек

While good software and data are necessities for effective supply chain planning, the right processes, policies, and organization are the most powerful keys for reducing costs and providing high service. This book reviews the state-of-the-art in production and distribution planning and presents principles and methods through which enterprises, including virtual enterprises, can design the best way to plan their operations. Supply chain and virtual enterprise oriented, the book covers collaborative planning, lean philosophy, and newer techniques like ant algorithms. If you are looking for insight into how to improve operations through better planning, this book is the place to find it. Dr. Schutt's unique exploration of the product flow planning discipline cuts across technical, functional, methodological, and practical issues in an easy-to-read manner. Providing a high-level survey of planning approaches, he sheds new light on those techniques, explores the principles that are requirements for good planning system design, and supplies a methodology for designing the right planning system for your enterprise. Rather than expounding a silver bullet answer to all your problems, this book highlights fundamentals that give you the ability to solve problems today and ten years from now. "Refuting the idea that there is "one best way" that all enterprises should plan operations and reviewing the state-of-the-art in production and distribution planning, Directing the Flow of Product: A Guide to Improving Supply Chain Planning presents principles and methods you can use to design the best way to plan your operations. It covers collaborative planning, lean philosophy, emerging techniques such as ant algorithms, and much more."--BOOK JACKET.