Optimize your supply chain for best-possible operations

Supply chain optimization is one of the newest areas of software for business management. SCO quickly became the fastest-growing area of management software. Supply chain management and advanced planning and scheduling are components of SCO. Once all assets and resources are in place, SCO technology...

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Published inWood Technology Vol. 125; no. 7; p. 35
Main Authors Bryan, Gene, McDougall, Don
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco Emerald Expositions LLC 01.09.1998
Subjects
Corporate profits
Costs
Customer services
Forest products
Integrated software
Inventory
Linear programming
Lumber industry
Management
Market positioning
Optimization
Product mixes
Production planning
Raw materials
Return on assets
Scheduling
Software
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Technology
Vendor supplier relations
Wood products
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Summary:Supply chain optimization is one of the newest areas of software for business management. SCO quickly became the fastest-growing area of management software. Supply chain management and advanced planning and scheduling are components of SCO. Once all assets and resources are in place, SCO technology helps create strategic and tactical plans that balance their use for superior big-picture results. APS and SCM systems then help make sure those plans are effectively scheduled and implemented. SCO involves 5 types of activities: 1. planning, 2. scheduling, 3. executing, 4. tracking, and 5. adjusting. Linear programming is the most widely used optimization technology.
ISSN:1067-1064