Skip to Main Content
The Definitive Guide to Modern Supply Chain Management (Collection)
book

The Definitive Guide to Modern Supply Chain Management (Collection)

by Chad W. Autry, Thomas J. Goldsby, John Bell, Mark A. Moon, Chuck Munson, Michael Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi, Jay Jayaraman
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1233 pages
30h 29m
English
Pearson
Content preview from The Definitive Guide to Modern Supply Chain Management (Collection)

13. Data Aggregation in Network Design

In this chapter, we will focus our attention on one of the most interesting, yet challenging parts of network design—data aggregation (we’ll refer to it as just “aggregation”). Aggregation is putting the data of your supply chain into logical groups for the purposes of modeling. For example, instead of modeling every single item that moves through the supply chain, our model may contain only a small handful of product groups. When we aggregate, we typically aggregate the following:

• Products (from many different individual products to a small number of product families)

• Customers (from many different actual delivery locations to several hundred aggregate points representing all the customers in a geographic ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

The Profitable Supply Chain: A Practitioner's Guide

The Profitable Supply Chain: A Practitioner's Guide

Ramnath Ganesan
Sustainability in Supply Chain Management (Collection)

Sustainability in Supply Chain Management (Collection)

Peter A. Soyka, Robert Palevich, Steven M. Leon

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780133474626