The structure of global supply chains : the design and location of sourcing, production, and distribution facility networks for global markets

Offprint: Foundation and trends in technology, information and operations management (Online). Vol. 1, no. 4 (2005). Global supply chain management is a core business process of the utmost strategic importance that all global firms have to manage. The Structure of Global Supply Chains provides a better understanding for the development of the right "footprint" of a global firm in its effort to supply its markets in environments of fast paced competition and tremendous uncertainty. The authors focus on the structure of global supply chains and the detailed choices involving the network of facilities at all stages of the supply chain in order to successfully execute the global business strategy. The main purpose of The Structure of Global Supply Chains is to go beyond an elementary exposition of global supply chain network design issues using the latest research to identify the multiplicity of factors that contribute to designing these networks for competitive advantage of the global firm, while at the same time exposing both the successful features and the challenges faced by decision support systems developed to address such decisions. The emphasis is on presenting approaches built on operations and supply chain modeling research and support tools based on academic and industrial research of the last two decades. The Structure of Global Supply Chains provides the reader with comprehensive answers to how should a global firm configure its network of facilities and what dynamic approaches to use to effectively reconfigure it in an effort to meet demand in global markets in a profit maximizing way of sustainable profitability and competitive advantage Contents......Page 10 Introduction --- Issues to Consider......Page 12 Globalization of Operations and Supply Chains......Page 13 Driving Forces of Globalization of Operations Strategies......Page 14 Structure of Global Supply Chains: Issues to Consider......Page 16 Structure of Our Review......Page 20 Conceptual Frameworks for Global Supply Chains......Page 24 Kouvelis and Munson Framework (MA-PLA-NET)......Page 25 Ferdows Framework: Strategic Role of Global Facilities......Page 36 A Typology of Plants in Global Manufacturing Networks......Page 40 Global Resource Deployment Analysis......Page 46 Global Facility Network Design Model......Page 52 Multi-echelon Supply Chain Networks under Demand Uncertainty......Page 58 Robust Designs for Global Networks and Its Related Applications......Page 62 Global Supply Chain Design Application......Page 72 Global Facility Network Design Using Newsvendor Network Approach......Page 89 Risk Considerations in Facility Location under Uncertainty......Page 104 Valuing Operational Flexibility Under Exchange Rate Risk......Page 114 Local Content Rules......Page 124 Transfer Pricing Schemes......Page 130 Taxation and Other Factors......Page 133 Previous Research Surveys: Global Manufacturing Strategy Literature......Page 138 Stochastic Global Facility Location Models......Page 139 Classification Scheme......Page 145 References......Page 150 Biographies......Page 154