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Network Design and Supply Chain Visibility in Electronics Industry
IBM put together a video on network design and supply chain visibility for the electronics industry. This is a good example of how network design fits into other solutions for the supply chain.
View ArticleTop 5 Models You Should Build in 2013
On SCDigest, I wrote an article about the 5 models you should build in 2013. These are simple models meant to get you started and add value. Here is the list, but see the SCDigest article for more...
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Some Basics of Modeling Multiple Time Periods
Adding extra time periods to a network design model turns out to be a bit harder than it would seem. First, since network design is a computationally hard problem, when we create a 12 time period...
View ArticlePlant Location in a Global Economy
The Economist recently published an survey on Offshoring and Outsourcing. If you follow manufacturing trends, this article is great read. The survey covers trends in both manufacturing and services....
View ArticleCost-To-Serve Modeling and Network Design
Earlier this week, I published an article on cost-to-serve on SupplyChainDigest. Network design plays a nice role in cost-to-serve modeling: Network design modeling software can complete the analysis...
View ArticleNetwork Design at Schwan’s Home Services
Inbound Logistics ran an article on network design at Schwan’s Home Services. Schwan’s Home Services runs a direct to consumer delivery business for food products. Before network optimization, they...
View ArticleBook Reviewed by Crabtree Analytics
Andrew Gibson at Crabtree Analytics recently reviewed our network design book: Here are a few quotes from the review: I’ve done a lot of supply chain network design projects and consider myself to be...
View ArticleGoing Beyond Traditional Network Design at Ahold
I was recently reminded of a talk that Ahold and IBM gave in 2011 at the Material Handling Conference in Park City Utah. It is a good network design case. Here the details from the IBM blog site:...
View ArticleTop Three Reasons Supply Chain Models Can Go Wrong (From SC Digest)
Dan Gilmore of Supply Chain Digest has written a few articles on the value of supply chain modeling this year. Then, a reader asked ”if the fear of bad models leading to terrible supply chain...
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Classic Network Design Case Study With a Twist for Air Shipments
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View ArticleBring Network Design To Your Classroom: Latest Trends and Commercial Software
On Thursday, April 18 at 12 PM ET, (11 CT, 10 MT, and 9 PT), we will be hosting a 30-minute webinar for professors interested in bringing network design into the classroom. The topic can be a full...
View ArticleEducational White Paper on Bi-Objective Optimzaiton
IBM just published an educational white paper by Pete Cacioppi on bi-objective optimization. This white paper provides details for the interested business user as well as the researcher into the latest...
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Visualization to Help Stop Dengue Fever
Back in 1854, John Snow plotted cholera on a map to help prove that the outbreak could be traced back to a water pump. Fast forward to 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan, and the same idea is being used to...
View ArticleWSJ Article: Supply Chain Management is the Hot New MBA Topic
Today’s Wall Street Journal featured an article on the growing popularity of supply chain management in MBA and undergraduate programs. Here is the opening of the article: Call it a problem of supply...
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Viewing your Supply Chain on a Map
A theme we keep going back to is that you should visualize your data with a map. (You can see some examples, here, here, here, and here). One important aspect of this is that you should see a...
View ArticleBook Review in the March 2013 IFORS Newsletter
The March 2013 IFORS Newsletter had a one page book review (see page 7). Here is the last paragraph: Supply Chain Network Design is an excellent book that would be of value not only to all supply...
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Network Design Software in the History of Supply Chain Managment
At CSCMP’s annual conference in Denver, CSCMP and Supply Chain Digest put together a video timeline of the history of supply chain management. (The video starts around the 4:00 minute mark of this...
View ArticleNew Book On the Optimization Behind Network Design– Free e-book
We recently recently released a free e-book on the optimization behind network design. The book is great for teaching optimization. (I use it at Northwestern in my classes.) It is also good if you...
View ArticleExtending the Idea of the Optimized Baseline
The book discusses the importance of the optimized baseline model. But, there are nice ways to expand on this idea. My recent article for Supply Chain Digest goes into an extension of this idea– using...
View ArticleMichelle Comerford on 5 Issues to Consider Before Selecting Your Next Site
A recent article in the June 2014 issues of Inbound Logistics by Michelle Comerford of Biggins Lacy and Shaper & Co wrote on 5 issues to consider when locating facilities. The article is a nice...
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