SUPPLY CHAIN PHYSICS

I've spent over 30 years working and consulting in the supply chain across a variety of industries. During that time I've met a lot of smart, well educated people - many with MBA's, and many in senior roles - who find themselves tasked with managing some aspect of the supply chain, but who lack key insights as to how supply chains work and how they impact the financials of an enterprise. This site is dedicated to helping those people, friends, students, and clients, by providing those insights in easily digestible bites... A supply chain is a system, and the various pieces and players interact in predictable ways. There is a certain ‘physics' to the supply chain. As such there are quantifiable mathematical relationships that predict the performance limits of the supply chain and how it will respond to both management action and external factors. Many operations classes try to teach some of this math, and in my experience, students in these courses come away knowing the math but..

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