Flexibility has become one of the most useful and necessary tool in today's competitive
markets. Manufacturing flexibility is widely recognised as a critical component to achieving a …

Academic and corporate interest on manufacturing flexibility has risen sharply in recent
years and a number of papers have been published in this area. This paper aims to explore …

Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the
methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how …

The long chain has been an important concept in the design of flexible processes. This
design concept, as well as other sparse designs, have been applied by the automotive and …

Purpose–Over the last decade, multiple initiatives have been undertaken to learn how to
capture the carbon footprint of a supply chain at a product level. The purpose of this paper is …

Purpose–Given volatile markets, the ability to quickly act is fundamental for companies–in
regard to the internal production and to external supply flows in the value network. Related …

Vignettes are scenarios used in many areas of academic research, whose main application
is related to situations in which judgments about people are subject to biases or distortions …

We analytically study optimal capacity and flexible technology selection in parallel queuing
systems. We consider N stochastic arrival streams that may wait in N queues before being …

Purpose While researchers and practitioners agree on the importance to adapt business
process management (BPM) practices to the nature of processes, the authors observe a lack …

Several design guidelines and flexibility indices have been developed in the literature to
inform the design of flexible production networks. In this paper, we propose additional …