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Principles in Supply Chain Analysis & Design cont'd
More Than Cost is at Stake
Supply chain leaders trade off reliability, responsiveness, flexibility, and cost to locate facilities
Companies design supply chains to fulfill customer requirements
Different markets can require vastly different supply chain strategies
Locations of production/inventory relative to demand are optimized through network analysis
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Supply Chain Drivers
Supply chain strategy is driven by analysis of:
Customer requirements
Heuristic and linear programming models are used to locate sites, trading off costs vs.
service levels
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Understanding how companies make these decisions can help drive more effective use
of EDA resources
Competitive market positioning and value
proposition
Availability of working capital
Physical characteristics of demand (location,
transport options, etc.)
Availability of capital
Other additional factors
Network Analysis Showing Supply Chain Service Areas and Routes
Companies build distribution
networks that balance DC operating
and transportation costs. The
| optimal solution adds locations until
the marginal cost of a new facility
outstrips the transportation savings
it can provide.
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