"This new edition provides a focused message on how inventory optimization effects specific business verticals through improved metrics. It reviews the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that practitioners can attain a demand driven supply as well as provides a business perspective of why...

Introduction : what the book is all about -- Acknowledgements -- Reader's guide -- About the author and the motivation for this book -- Why lean SCM today? -- Supply chain management in process industries -- Guiding principles of lean SCM planning : facing VUCA challenges -- Fundamentals of lean...