Text at the top of the cover: A thoroughly researched explanation of how to leverage safety stock in systems for supply planning. Text in the wave in the center of the cover: This book explains many of the great misunderstandings that surround safety stock, including the aspect of safety stock that is missed on many practitioners. Safety stock is one of the most discussed inventory management parameters in supply chain management. However, safety stock is set very inefficiently at most companies. This observation comes from reviewing the safety stock settings at many companies on the part of...

This book is called capacity management because it encompasses two areas of planning that are normally discussed independently; short term capacity leveling or capacity constraining, which is the movement of demand to fit within the available supply, and long term capacity planning, which is the planning of long-term demand in order to determine if the capacity should be changed. In this book, both topics are covered and they are covered using multiple software applications to explain the concepts of capacity management. These are two closely related processes, however they are often...