Dr. Frazelle teaches the ten steps to an optimal transportation network - (1) develop supply chain database, (2) baseline supply chain network performance, (3) brainstorm supply chain network scenarios, (4) model network scenarios, (5) select network modeling tool, (6) implement network model, (7) evaluate alternative scenarios, (8) practicalize network solutions, (9) compute cost-benefit ratios, and (10) execute go/no-go decision.

Introduction

• Reconfiguration Drivers
• Why Transportation Now?
• Domestic Equation
• International Equation

Network Tradeoffs

• Networks and Inventory
• Networks and Travel Distance
• Networks and Total Logistics Cost
• Networks and Response Time
• Networks and Customer Service Policy

Ten Steps to an Optimal Network

• Baseline the current network
• Populate the optimization database
• Develop network scenarios
• Develop network model
• Select a network modeling tool
• Implement model in network optimization system
• Evaluate alternative nework scenarios
• Practicalize recommended network solution
• Compute reconfiguration cost-benefit
• Make go/no-go decision

Cases

• Heavy Industry
• Retail
• Consumer Direct
• One Hour Customer Service Policy
• Biotech

WHAT'S INCLUDED
1. Lecture Presentation
2. Presentation Slides
3. Course Reading
4. Learning Assessment
5. Practice Assessment
6. Course Completion Certificate
7. Reference Slides
8. Simulations
9. Videos
 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Ed Frazelle is one of the world's foremost authorities on supply chain strategy. He is President and CEO of Logistics Resources International and Founder of RightChain™ Institute. Logistics Resources International is a global supply chain consulting firm with teams in Atlanta, USA; Tokyo, JAPAN; Sydney, AUSTRALIA; Lima, PERU; and San Jose, COSTA RICA. RightChain™ is a supply chain development methodology guiding the supply chains of many of the world's most successful supply chain organizations including Honda, Disney, Coca-Cola, Hallmark, Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Sundstrand, among many others. Dr. Frazelle's books on supply chain management - Supply Chain Strategy, Inventory Strategy, and World-Class Warehousing - are best sellers and have been translated into seven languages. Dr. Frazelle founded The Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech and has lectured at Cornell, Northwestern, the National University of Singapore, and Waseda University.
 

ABOUT RightChain™ Institute
RightChain™ Institute provides supply chain professionals with the world’s most effective, objective, and practical supply chain education. Successfully offered for more than 20 years, clients include BIC, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Disney, GE, Honda, LL Bean, M&M Mars, P&G, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon, among many others. Our programs have been taught at Cornell, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, National University of Singapore, and Waseda University.


ABOUT Logistics Resources International
Logistics Resources International is a global supply chain consulting firm with RightChain™ teams in Atlanta, USA; Tokyo, JAPAN; San Jose, COSTA RICA; Lima, PERU; and Sydney, AUSTRALIA. The firm was founded in by Dr. Ed Frazelle in 1995 and serves clients with supply chain consulting, analytics, and education services.