Managing the Network of Supply and Demand at AGL Energy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Frank Schlosser; Peter Reynolds; Tim Coltman; Alan Thorogood
- Source
- Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Cases. :1-12
- Subject
- Supply chain management
Procurement
General Medicine
Business
Energy supply
Economic order quantity
Industrial organization
Energy (signal processing)
Supply and demand
- Language
- ISSN
- 2631-598X
AGL Energy operates in one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world. Demand is volatile with high customer churn rates and supply procurement is real time with huge price variability. These characteristics make supply chain management difficult and the case study describes how information is used to match supply with demand.