Graves, Stephen C.; Willems, Sean P. - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 8, pp. 1165-1180
We address how to configure the supply chain for a new product for which the design has already been decided. The … supply chain. There might be multiple options to supply a raw material, to manufacture or assemble the product, and to … these various choices along the supply chain, the configuration problem is to select the options that minimize the total …