Supply Chain Modeling Handbook

Supply Chain Modeling Handbook

Learn how to model your entire supply chain, find improvements in your network, and uncover new optimization use cases. This book walks you through how to model your physical supply chain on the computer and walks you through a range of use cases of places to look for improvements to your network. You'll learn how you can optimize sourcing decisions, production decisions, transportation decisions, inventory decisions, and more for your organization, along with the data needed to support every decision. You may be able to save your organization millions of dollars, increasing your customer service levels, and find a more sustainable supply chain network. You will also learn how to model all of these optimization use cases in Coupa’s supply chain software. In addition to learning the industry leading supply chain optimization software you will also learn the mathematics of what the optimization modeling software is doing internally. This will transform the way you think about what you can optimize with your supply chain. The book also covers how to measure risk in your supply chain and optimize for objectives such as best value and not just least cost.