Optimization models are being increasingly applied to supply chain decision problems. At the strategic level of planning, corporate financial decisions, such as those involving capital investment or long-term debt, are inextricably linked to supply chain decisions, such as those involving network re-design or corporate acquisitions. In this conference, we present optimization models for holistically analyzing corporate financial decisions. We also demonstrate how they can be seamlessly integrated through yearly funds-flow equations with optimization models for analyzing supply chain decisions. The conference concludes with a discussion of methods for using these optimization models to explore trade-offs among revenue growth, profits, and capital utilization. Values for these factors are the primary inputs to models that forecast stock prices for publicly traded firms.

• How optimization models can analyze corporate financial decisions
• How corporate financial models can be seamlessly integrated with supply chain models in seeking strategies to maximize shareholder value
• How the integrated models can be used to explore trade-offs among revenue growth, profits and capital utilization in forecasting stock prices

• Supply chain and corporate financial managers who are interested in enhancing fact-based decision-making in their companies; consultants; researchers.

Dr. Jeremy Shapiro, President of SLIM Technologies, LLC, will conduct the conference. SLIM Technologies is a Boston-based firm specializing in the development and application of modeling systems for supply chain management. Dr Shapiro is also Professor Emeritus of Operations Research and Management at the Sloan School, MIT. For nine years, he served as co-director of MIT's Operations Research Center. He is author of Modeling the Supply Chain, published by Duxbury Press in 2001.

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