Supply Chain Optimization: A Practical Guide to Linear Programming, Transportation, Inventory, and Production Planning: From Linear Programming to Rea

By Mohammed Islam Hadjoudj

Better supply chain decisions, by design, not by guesswork.

Every supply chain runs on decisions: how much to order, where to put a warehouse, which routes to run, what to make this month, which supplier to trust. Most of them are still made with rules of thumb and spreadsheets that hide the trade-offs, and the cost of a merely acceptable plan never shows up on any report. Optimization finds the best plan your data allows, and this book shows you how to use it without a PhD.

Supply Chain Optimization is a practical guide for managers, analysts, engineers, and students. Each chapter starts from a real business decision, builds the model step by step, solves it, and explains what the answer means for the business. The mathematics stays at the level you actually need, and every number in the book has been checked by solving the model.

What you will learn
- How to turn a business question into decision variables, an objective, and constraints
- Linear and integer programming, sensitivity analysis, and shadow prices in plain language
- Transportation, transshipment, and network flow models that move goods at the lowest cost
- Vehicle routing, facility location, and warehouse design
- Demand forecasting, EOQ, safety stock, and inventory policies
- Supplier selection, procurement, production planning, and scheduling
- Decisions under uncertainty, scenario planning, Monte Carlo simulation, and carbon trade-offs
- How to put a model into daily use so people trust it and act on it

Inside the book
- 21 chapters in four parts, from modeling foundations to moving goods, managing stock and production, and handling uncertainty
- 47 worked examples with complete numbers, plus Manager's Takeaway and Common Pitfall boxes
- 94 end-of-chapter exercises with full, step-by-step solutions
- Three integrated case studies that link network design, distribution, inventory, and production planning
- Step-by-step Excel Solver instructions and Python code for every major model
- A glossary of 91 key terms and a formula quick reference
- Free companion files: 23 tested Python models, Excel Solver workbooks, and a Jupyter notebook

Who this book is for
Supply chain, logistics, and operations managers who want better decisions, analysts and engineers who build planning models, and business and engineering students who want a bridge from theory to real decisions. You need basic algebra and a spreadsheet. No programming experience is required, and the Python material is there when you are ready for it.

About the author
Mohammed Islam Hadjoudj is an operations engineer. He holds a Master's degree in Operations Research and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) in Algiers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HCNHQVB4
• ISBN13: 9798190329926
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"