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Dual Supply Channel Disruption and Supply Chain Design

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Optimal newsvendor policies for dual-sourcing supply chains: A disruption risk management framework
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2012

This is the continuation of the Greece week and today I am going to have a look at a mathematical model to capture the effects of dual disruptions in a news-vendor model.

This time the three authors (Xanthopoulos, Vlachos and Iakovou) come from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Optimal Design of Supply Chain Networks with uncertain Demand

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Optimal design of supply chain networks under uncertain transient demand variations
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2011

This week is dedicated to the works on supply chain management from Greek supply chain researchers. Today’s article has been published in the Journal of Management Sciences (Omega) by four researchers from northern Greece and the UK.

The Power of Flexibility for Mitigating Supply Chain Risks

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The power of flexibility for mitigating supply chain risks

This article sheds light on the question of how much flexibility is necessary to secure the supply chain against disruption risks.
The paper reviewed today takes a closer look at three supply chain risks: supply, process and demand risks (figure 1).




Supply Chains and Fuzzy Demand

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Fuzzy facility location-allocation problem under the Hurwicz criterion
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2008

Risk in supply chains can be included in several different ways into the decision making process.

No Risk

A statement in many supply chain models is that some/most/all parameters of the model are fixed (e.g. fixed demand, zero probability of a hurricane).

The result is, if the real value of this parameter diverges from the assumptions, the results of the model will be flawed to a certain degree (up to completely unusable).

Supply Chain Design - Robust Planning with differentiated Supplier Selection

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Supply Chain Design - Robuste Planung mit differenzierter Auswahl der Zulieferer
Year: 
2005

This is the third contribution to my series on doctoral dissertations on Supply Chain Risk Management. An immense effort and dedication is spent on these works only to find the results hidden in the libraries. So the goal is raise interest in the research of my peers.