Debating Supply Chains

I went through the debate on DDMRP twice in the last today and wrote pages and pages of notes.

Here the link:

My key points:

1. Open challenge to a new debate, this time I would like to be part of it

2. Intellectuals vs. tinkers: where I stand

3. Skin in the game of Supply Chain

4. The book I red: they made me as a professional (list below)

5. Demand Driven Adaptive system: It is a Management Model

   1. DDAE to run companies

   2. DDS&OP a management tool and a tool for tactical planning

   3. DDMRP the planning algorithm

6. Why companies need a management model and why flow is important?

7. The challenges of management for Supply Chain Executives

8. DDMRP is an “engine” or better, DDMRP is a 3D Supply Chain algorithm

9. DDMRP as a tool to design, visualize and organize Supply Chains

10. DDMRP Buffer from a System Control: Non-Linear Low Pass filter + Feed-forward

11. Where DDMRP fails

12. Probabilistic forecasting (and stochastic inventory planning) as a tool for DDS&OP

13. How we could integrate

14. Various topics

15. Call for action

Some preliminary study:

Here the book I listed and recommend:

• Inventory Optimization (Nicolas Vandeput)

• DDMRP version 3 (Chad Smith, Carol Ptak)

• The Demand Driven Enterprise (Chad Smith, Carol Ptak)

• The Adaptive S&OP (Chad Smith, Carol Ptak, Dick Ling)

• Demand Driven performance (Debra Smith, Chad Smith)

• Superforecasting (Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner)

• Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (Nassim Taleb)

Let’s enlarge this discussions, please comment.

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