Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain analytics, covering management, modeling and technology perspectives. Designed to accompany the textbook “Global Supply Chain and Operations Management” it addresses the topics of supply chain analytics in more depth, focusing on the major features of predictive and prescriptive analytics. Numerous practical examples and short case studies are provided to illustrate theoretical concepts using AnyLogic and anyLogistix software. Without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book explains major concepts and methods of supply chain analytics to build and improve supply chain and operations management in a simple, uniform format to make it easy to understand for students and professionals with both management and engineering backgrounds. Graduate/PhD students and supply chain professionals alike will benefit from the structured, didactically oriented and concise presentation of the concepts, principles and methods of supply chain modeling and technological implementation.