Inventory and Supply Chain Optimization

Imagine, you have to supply your customers from an inventory of several hundred thousand parts, handling tens of thousands of orders per week. Overall, you want these customers to be satisfied with at least 95% service level (number of customer requests that can be immediately satisfied.) Further, imagine your inventory comes from over one thousand suppliers with strongly varying package conditions, price structures and delivery times. At the same time you want to minimize overall costs, consisting of distribution-center inventory, handling and transportation costs. And finally, you want to manage all of this dynamically over time with a limited computational investment.