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

CHAPTER 4
Supply Chain Design: Flexibility Considerations
Will Bertrand

1. Introduction*  

2. Conceptual research on manufacturing flexibility

3. The flexible machine investment problem; volume and mix flexibility

4. Resource flexibility, range, mobility, uniformity and throughput time

5. Empirical research on flexibility  

6. Supply chain flexibility  

7. Design for supply chain flexibility

8. Conclusion

References

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