AMR Research Report on Supply Chain Management For May 1998

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FRONTLINE

Supply Chain Planning Optimization: Just the Facts
by Larry Lapide

While optimization methods have been around since post World War II, until recently there has only been a marginal interest in applying these concepts to supply chain planning. But one questions whether all buyers understand how to apply these solutions and what they are getting for their money. Is optimization worth the cost? Does it really work? This month's Frontline addresses these questions by focusing on supply chain optimization technology from leading APS providers.

THE AMR INSIDER

Perspectives on Optimization
by Janet Suleski

There are a number of communities intimately involved in the creation and execution of supply chain optimization technology. Each community, however, has different ideas about what it means to optimize a supply chain, what the best methods are, how clean the data needs to be, and even how comprehensive the targeted supply chain should be. For this month's Insider, AMR surveyed representatives from the academic, manufacturing, consulting, and software vendor fields to get their opinions on what supply chain optimization really means.

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