{"id":435,"date":"2013-01-14T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2013-01-14T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:15:00","slug":"supply-chain-network-design-by-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/14\/supply-chain-management\/supply-chain-network-design-by-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Network Design &#8211; By the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article by SC Digest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scdigest.com\/assets\/FIRSTTHOUGHTS\/12-10-19.php?cid=6333\" target=\"_blank\">Supply Chain Network Design &#8211; By the Book<\/a> is about a new kid on the block (a book: <strong>Supply Chain Network Design: Applying Optimization and Analytics to the Global Supply Chain<\/strong>) as far as Supply Chain Modeling and Optimization goes.<\/p>\n<p>As you might be aware I\u2019m not really that keen on the adoption of optimization in businesses even though I\u2019m sold on the absolute necessity of it. I\u2019ve outlined several reasons over several posts on this blog : <a href=\"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/22\/personal-observations\/coming-off-a-tough-tough-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coming off a tough tough project<\/a> (for starters).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ideas in the article are tried and tested \u2013 as in I was employing them in Supply Chain Consulting way back in 2004-06 timeframe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5bca23b2-6b0a-4d28-9f05-40b18c6dd361\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Supply+Chain+Network+Design\" rel=\"tag\">Supply Chain Network Design<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Supply+Chain+Management\" rel=\"tag\">Supply Chain Management<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Supply+Chain\" rel=\"tag\">Supply Chain<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/SC+Digest\" rel=\"tag\">SC Digest<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Supply+Chain+Optimization\" rel=\"tag\">Supply Chain Optimization<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Supply+Chain+Analytics\" rel=\"tag\">Supply Chain Analytics<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply Chain Network Design &#8211; By the Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[401,373,284,95,400,402,508,398,399],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-supply-chain-management","tag-analytics","tag-optimization-2","tag-sc-digest","tag-supply-chain","tag-supply-chain-analytics","tag-supply-chain-consulting","tag-supply-chain-management","tag-supply-chain-network-design","tag-supply-chain-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->