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Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide
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Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide

by Ph.D. David A. Taylor
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 16m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 13. Mastering Demand

This chapter marks the transition to the highest level of supply chain management: making the design decisions that ultimately determine the capabilities and limitations of your chain. The first step in designing a supply chain is understanding the pattern of demand your chain has to serve. This demand pattern is formed by the intersection of customer requirements, as described in the first section, and product constraints, discussed in the second section. Although demand is usually taken as a given, the third section introduces a variety of techniques you can use to improve the shape of demand to better fit your chain, including a few techniques that actually improve demand by reducing it. The last section examines ...

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