Flexible Supply Chain Design and Planning

Lafnez-Aguirre and L. Puigjaner, Advances in Integrated and Sustainable Supply Chain Planning, DOl 10.1007/978-3-319-10220-7 5 

5 Flexible Design—Planning of Supply Chain Networks 

Reviews of works related to strategic SC models can be found in Vidal and Goetschalckx (1997), Beamon (1998), Schmidt and Wilhelm (2000), Meixell and Gargeya (2005) and Shah (2005). 

The approach presented in this chapter is deterministic, hence demand uncertainty is not taken into account. Instead, this chapter focuses on how improved SC designs are obtained by more properly considering flexibility in the connectivity among SC components and the selection of processes (i.e., stages) to be installed in each location. 

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