Tan Miller

Tan MillerTan Miller is the Director of the Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) Program in the College of Business Administration at Rider University. His responsibilities at Rider include advising students in the GSCM Program, teaching introductory and advanced courses on supply chain management, and directing ongoing enhancements to the GSCM curriculum. Previously he worked in private industry for over 20 years where most recently he was responsible for the operations of J&J’s US Consumer Distribution Network. Prior to that, he headed the U.S. Consumer Healthcare Logistics Network of Pfizer Inc., and he has also held production and distribution management, as well as consulting positions with Mercer Management Consulting, Unisys, Warner-Lambert and American Olean Tile Company. Tan has published five books and over sixty articles, and has made over 100 industry and academic conference presentations on supply chain and logistics operations and planning. His most recent books include Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance (Business Expert Press), Hierarchical Operations and Supply Chain Planning (Springer-Verlag Publishers) and Strategic Logistics: Efficient Transportation Decisions (Boskage Commerce Publications). Tan also has and continues to serve on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of trade and educational journals and councils. Tan received an M.A, M.B.A and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications

Profit Maximizing Network Modeling With Inventory and Capacity Considerations
Profit Maximizing Network Modeling With Inventory and Capacity Considerations
Tan Miller, Renato de Matta. © 2019. 15 pages.
Developing integrated strategic, tactical, and operational manufacturing and distribution plans for the global supply chain of a large, international firm represents a formidable...
Profit Maximizing Network Modeling With Inventory and Capacity Considerations
Profit Maximizing Network Modeling With Inventory and Capacity Considerations
Tan Miller, Renato de Matta. © 2018. 13 pages.
Developing integrated strategic, tactical and operational manufacturing and distribution plans for the global supply chain of a large, international firm represents a formidable...
High Level Inventory Network Modeling Approaches
High Level Inventory Network Modeling Approaches
Tan Miller, Renato de Matta, Minghong Xu. © 2016. 30 pages.
Over the last several decades, practitioners have used the Square Root of N (SQRTN) and the Portfolio Effect models to develop estimates of the change in finished goods inventory...
Optimize Short to Long Run Supply Chain Planning
Optimize Short to Long Run Supply Chain Planning
Tan Miller. © 2014. 15 pages.