The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain (Wiley and SAS Business Series)

by Vinit Sharma (Author)

In today’s business environment, more and more people are requesting cloud-based solutions to help solve their business challenges. So how can you not only anticipate your clients’ needs but also keep ahead of the curve to ensure their goals stay on track?

With the help of this accessible book, you’ll get a clear sense of cloud computing and understand how to communicate the benefits, drawbacks, and options to your clients so they can make the best choices for their unique needs. Plus, case studies give you the opportunity to relate real-life examples of how the latest technologies are giving organizations worldwide the opportunity to thrive as supply chain solutions in the cloud.

Demonstrates how improvements in forecasting, collaboration, and inventory optimization can lead to cost savings
Explores why cloud computing is becoming increasingly important
Takes a close look at the types of cloud computing
Makes sense of demand-driven forecasting using Amazon's cloud

Whether you work in management, business, or IT, this is the dog-eared reference you’ll want to keep close by as you continue making sense of the cloud

Technological innovation and retail disrupters have raised the bar for consumers' expectations of on-demand shopping, and for suppliers to stay competitive today, products and services need to be at the right place, at the right time, and at the right price and quantity. In The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain, Microsoft's cloud solutions architect Vinit Sharma, shows you how to gain a competitive advantage by capturing, storing, and analyzing data using technology that's easy on your stress level and budget.

You will discover that the same technology and big data driving the consumer side can be used to overcome challenges on the supply-chain side. Specifically, this focused and authoritative guide takes you on a practical tour of how cloud computing can enable companies to forecast demand for sales units in order to strategically respond. In-depth coverage ensures you understand the pros, cons, and all available options of cloud-computing capabilities in order to customize the optimal approach for individual organizations.

If you need or want to provide accurate sales forecasts for supply chain optimization, no other resource on the market gives you a more complete and comprehensive way to:

Grasp real-time sales demand, customer sentiment about specific products, locational trends, effectiveness of promotions, and much more
Elevate your ability to respond and operate by expertly leveraging a scalable and cost-effective platform for making data-backed decisions

Fully prepare yourself for how it unfolds in the real world through case studies with illuminating detail from SAS Institute
From an introduction to cloud computing and the top public cloud vendors to seamlessly migrating to the cloud, The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain is your road map to bringing any supply chain up to state-of-the-art performance

About the Author
VINIT SHARMA is a cloud solutions architect at Microsoft where he continually pushes the cutting edge of the Microsoft data platform and artificial intelligence. He's worked in IT for more than fifteen years on projects involving cloud computing, virtualization, and enabling advanced analytics solutions for global teams in R&D, sales, and professional services. He is author of numerous white papers, methodologies, best practices, and implementation guides for the SAS Institute