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Logistics Management
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Logistics Management

by Tan Miller, Matthew J. Liberatore
April 2020
Beginner to intermediate
184 pages
3h 50m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 6

Manufacturing and Distribution Decision Support

Introduction

Manufacturing and distribution planning and scheduling frameworks and their components can address an extremely broad range of management activities, from scheduling a single operation of one plant or distribution center to planning and scheduling operations over an entire global network. The introduction in Chapter 1 of a hierarchical planning framework described three broad planning levels (the strategic, tactical, and operational) that address a complex set of linked but different decisions. These decisions differ across many dimensions, including length of planning horizon, level of planning detail, risks and costs of the decisions, and long-term impact of the decisions. ...

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ISBN: 9781949443851