Supply Chain & Logistics
Plan freight, loads, routes and replenishment by the numbers: quotes, pallets and containers, S&OP, spare parts and pull systems, every cell checked.
Quote air and sea shipments like a forwarder: actual vs volumetric weight, weight-break rates, weight-or-measure for consolidated sea freight, full vs shared containers, surcharges, currencies and margin, with every cell checked as you go.
Fit more goods into every shipment: cartons per layer in both orientations, layers within height and weight limits, pallets per truck or container, cube and weight utilisation and what a better load does to cost per unit, with every cell checked as you go.
Run a monthly S&OP cycle for a fictional manufacturer: consensus demand by family, capacity in hours, gaps and options, projected inventory, level vs chase plans, scenarios and the financial view, with every cell checked as you go.
Plan stock for parts that sell rarely and unpredictably: classify demand patterns, forecast with Croston's method, measure errors without MAPE traps, set stock for a service level, rank critical parts and clean out dead stock, with every cell checked as you go.
Size a pull system for a fictional plant or hospital store room: kanban card counts, two-bin quantities, supermarket min/max, how lead-time variation changes the loop, levelled production mixes and the stock-vs-stockout trade-off, with every cell checked as you go.
Plan delivery or service routes without special software: distance matrices from coordinates, nearest-neighbour tours, 2-opt swaps that shorten them, time-window checks, vehicle capacities and sweep routes, with every cell checked as you go.
Decide where warehouses should be and how many you need: find a weighted centre of gravity and improve it step by step, assign customers to the nearest depot, trade transport costs off against warehouse costs, measure how much demand is within a delivery time and estimate how safety stock changes with the number of depots, with every cell checked as you go.
Run inventory the way many shops and warehouses do, with a check every week or month: set order-up-to levels, min–max rules and review periods, track on-hand, on-order and pipeline stock through a 52-week simulation, measure fill rates and stock-outs, and group a supplier's items into one combined order, with every cell checked as you go.
Compare ways of moving the same goods. You will build door-to-door costs including pre- and on-carriage, transit times and reliability, the capital tied up in goods on the move, extra safety stock for slower or less reliable modes, CO₂ per tonne-km and the distance at which rail beats road, with every cell checked as you go.
Start with the recommended course and build your first result in the lab today.
