Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management: Transformational Performance Improvement

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Kogan Page Publishers, Apr 3, 2017 - Business & Economics - 280 pages

Many manufacturing and distribution companies are moving from the traditional 'forecast push MRP' to demand-driven supply chain management (SCM). Demand-driven SCM is an 'end-to-end' supply chain planning and replenishment process that enables companies to achieve their planned service levels from up to half the average level of inventory and requiring significantly less throughput capacity - irrespective of the level of demand volatility or lead-time length.

Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management is the go-to source for industry supply chain/operations executives and students. It describes the 'what, how and why' of the demand-driven SCM process. The key themes in the book are: what is demand-driven? why is demand-driven so effective? how to operate a demand-driven supply chain? and how to adopt the demand-driven process in your company? Readers can quickly grasp the essential concepts from one of numerous self-contained sections that present the book's key concepts from different perspectives. Online resources available include full-colour figures.

 

Contents

01 Introduction and summaries
1
02 What is DemandDriven SCM?
22
03 Why DemandDriven SCM?
73
04 How to operate a DemandDriven Supply Chain
122
05 DemandDriven SCM and Lean
195
06 Why arent we already using DemandDriven SCM?
206
07 The Demand Driven Institute DemandDriven MRP and SaaS
226
08 What next control theory?
235
From supply chain an apology to our commercial colleagues
241
The story behind DDMRP contribution by Chad Smith and Carol Ptak cofounders of the Demand Driven Institute
244
Further reading
250
Index
253
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Simon Eagle is a senior supply chain planning and strategy consultant with over 20 years of international industry experience and significant expertise in S&OP and demand-driven supply chain management. He works with manufacturing and distribution companies that wish to make a transformational improvement in their E2E operations and supply chain performance and does so through helping them to adopt 'demand-driven' planning and execution.

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