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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: DESIGN, COORDINATION AND OPERATION
Edited by A.G. de Kok and S.C. Graves

CHAPTER 3
Supply Chain Design: Safety Stock Placement and Supply Chain Configuration
Stephen C. Graves and Sean P. Willems

1. Introduction*  

2. Approaches to safety stock placement  

3. Model formulation  

4. Heavy industry and consumer packaged goods example  

5. Supply-chain configuration

6. Conclusion

References

* The first two pages of the chapters are available as PDF file.

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