WSJ 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...
View ArticleReminder on the Business Issues in Network Design
The June 2013 issue of Inbound Logistics had an article on the importance of the “entrepreneurial spirit” in site selection. The article is mostly about the large number of large companies in NW...
View ArticleMaterials for New Book on Learning CPLEX Optimization
We’ve now posted all the CPLEX model and accompanying Excel and Access files to go along with the free e-book, A Deep Dive into Strategic Network Design Programming (for the files, scroll to the bottom...
View ArticleNew Paperback and Kindle Version of the Book
In the summer of 2017, Pearson Education, Inc (the original publisher of the book) turned over the rights of the book to the authors. We spent the Fall working to get the book republished. I thought...
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