We hope you enjoy the June
issue of Supply Chain Directions, our bi-monthly e-newsletter linking
you to a short list of leading, timely and relevant white papers and
articles in the areas of Supply Chain Strategy,
Transportation
Planning, and
Inventory Planning.
Chainalytics
Article: When Mother Nature And The Super Bowl Drive Your Supply Chain
Design
Whether it is seasonal supply from agricultural providers or
seasonal demand from holiday customers, this variability creates
significant challenges for timing inventory builds and creating peak
period capacity. To deal with seasonality strategically, firms need to
simultaneously trade off fixed and variable capacity costs with inventory
carrying costs.
By Jeffery M. Metersky. To appear in Food Logistics
Magazine 
Supply
Network Modeling May Result in Model Of Business
Success
Supply-chain management and logistics are not known for
their glamour, but today's new network models have become an attractive
way to do strategic and tactical planning, domestically and
globally.
By Thomas A. Foster, Global Logistics & Supply Chain
Strategies
Optimizing
Your Supply Chain: A Model Approach
Applying the information you
get by using the right supply chain modeling tool can help squeeze cost
and inventory out of your supply chain while improving service to
customers. Yet, while some companies do an excellent job of modeling their
supply chains, others have barely tapped the potential for
improvement.
By Leslie Hansen Harps, Inbound Logistics
Inbound
for glory
Land O'Lakes bucks the outsourcing trend by managing its
own logistics.
By Dave Blanchard, Transportation & Distribution
The
need for speed
As more customers demand faster delivery from
shippers, expedited service is becoming the rule rather than the
exception.
By John Shanahan, Logistics Management
Growing
use of shipper tariffs is hurting LTLs
Research shows that an
increase in the number of shipper-specific tariffs harms carriers'
competitiveness while raising their costs.
Logistics Management
New
Algorithms From Academia Help Solve Inventory Optimization
Problem
Determining the right amount of inventory to hold in which
locations - without excesses or shortages - has been an intractable
supply-chain problem. Now new tools, based on breakthrough academic
research, promise to reduce inventories across the chain with the same or
better service.
By Jean V. Murphy, Global Logistics & Supply
Chain Strategies
Inventory
Bloat at Toyota. What Gives?
Answer may lie in the supply
chain.
By David Drickhamer, IndustryWeek's The Value Chain
