Supply Chain and Operations Analytics: Areas, Analytics, Formulations and Results

This book presents concepts, strategies, and decision-making processes of supply chain and operations management through simple to advanced analytics. It provides the tools necessary to comprehend supply chain and operations management, quantitatively and analytically, through exercises and examples.

Using accessible quantitative models, this volume provides a unified framework for supply chain analytics for products―right from sourcing to manufacturing to delivery and remanufacturing, which closes the supply chain. This book synthesizes a collection of models in all the areas of supply chain like Sourcing, Inventory, Production planning and control, forecasting of demand, Transportation, Network planning and Design, Data aggregation and mining and return of products in the context of both formulation and solution of the problems in each area using suitable software and Excel Solver for the ease of understanding. Use of simulation, stochastic and system design models are added attractions of the book.

This book will be useful to the students, researchers and faculty working in the field of Supply chain Management, Operations Management, and Industrial Engineering, both at Graduate and research levels. It will also be an invaluable companion to consultants and practitioners, working with models and modelling systems, helping them make better supply chain decisions.

Rabindranath Bhattacharya retired from Sundaram Fasteners Ltd, Chennai in 2006 (A TVS Group of companies) as General Manager (Materials) and subsequently as an Advisor, Materials management and Strategic Planning from Ucal Fuel Systems Ltd, Chennai in 2009

Anindita Maitra Bhattacharyya is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Amity University Kolkata.