Model Math
The term for a solution that satisfies all constraints.
What is feasible?
This constraint prevents you from producing more than your line can handle.
What is capacity?
This company coined the term “Supply Chain Design“
What is LLamasoft?
This version of the model is supposed to represent how the business actually ran, even though the data is incomplete, the logic changed mid-quarter, and no one remembers what happened in Week 37.
What is Baseline?
This type of stock exists to protect you from demand variability, forecast error… and unrealistic service level promises made in Sales people.
What is safety stock?
This acronym stands for the “Greatest tool we love and hate in supply chain modeling.”
What is SCGx?
This technology is based on elegant math like the traveling salesman problem—until your client says “just avoid highways, tolls, weekends, and Dave’s shift.”
What is a TO model?
This was the first technology available in Supply Chain Guru
What is Simulation?
Main cause of Infeasibility that takes you 100 billable hours to debug
What is a typo?
This is the mysterious gap between when an order lands and when it finally escapes the warehouse—often longer than quoted.
What is Service time?
The simplex algorithm was invented by this person in 1947.
Who is George Dantzig?
This constraints help you when there is no direct way way constraining you model
What are expression constraints?
This was the other animal to be consider but the llama was the chosen one
What is a Giraffe?
Ctrl-F and search for xavier
What is LLama Space Invaders(SCG easter egg)?
Probability of Not Stocking Out
Quantity Fill Rate
Ready Rate
What are Service Types?