Unresolved Issues in Supply Chain Network Design

R. Ballou

DOI:10.1023/A:1012872704057

Corpus ID: 8999992

Unresolved Issues in Supply Chain Network Design

@article{Ballou2001UnresolvedII,
  title={Unresolved Issues in Supply Chain Network Design},
  author={R. Ballou},
  journal={Information Systems Frontiers},
  year={2001},
  volume={3},
  pages={417-426}
}

R. Ballou
Published 2001
Business, Computer Science
Information Systems Frontiers

Designing a supply chain network provides the basic structure for supply chain operations, where the network is a major element in a firm's competitiveness and a significant area of capital investment. With the boundary-spanning scope encouraged by supply chain management, the question is whether existing analyses used for network design are adequate. The general answer is yes, because the number of echelons that the analysis must span is self-limiting to a relative few. However, there remain… Expand

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