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Academic
Supply Chain Guru™ is often
used in academic settings to help demonstrate the structure and operations of a
supply chain and to teach methods for supply chain modeling and strategic planning.
LLamasoft has created an academic pricing package to give universities access to
the same high-powered planning software used by companies around the world.
Areas of academic focus include:
- Modeling global supply chains from supplier through
end customer
- Understand supply chain cost drivers and tradeoffs
- Evaluate service and inventory impacts due to lead time
variability
- Study supply chain sensitivity based on variability
of commodity prices
- Simulate various network strategies to understand their
impact on cost and profitability
- Demonstrate principles of multi-echelon inventory risk
pooling
The Enterprise Simulation
functionality in Supply Chain Guru™ has been used by numerous academic researchers
and classrooms to defend or disprove the merit of specific supply chain operational
theories. Much like in the commercial world, simulation is an impartial predictor
of operational and financial outcomes based on specifically defined network designs.
Supply Chain Guru’s Visual Modeler
enables users of all skill levels to quickly build and analyze supply chain models.
The Network Optimization feature
helps users understand the benefits of optimizing a network for “total landed
cost” as opposed to regionally optimizing specific sub-sets of the supply
chain.
The Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization
functionality demonstrates the cost and service impact of properly positioning inventory
and setting the appropriate safety stock and reorder levels.
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