The importance of flexibility has long been known in operations management and it is becoming a central issue in supply … directions. Risks, information, flexibility and control over demand or supply are identified as core issues and their interplay …

It is well-known that adding a little flexibility to the right place is an effective strategy to improve the … system disruptions are ubiquitous, the legacy flexibility designs may perform poorly under disruptions to supply or capacity … installations. In this paper, we focus on the design of reliable and sparse flexibility structures that consistently meet a …