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Designing Value-Creating Supply Chain Networks

  • Winner of the 'Coup de Coeur' prize from the 'Plumes des Achats' 2016, awarded by four organisations - ACA, X-Achats, ADRA and CDAF - for the best books in purchasing and supply chains

  • Presents an innovative reengineering methodology to significantly improve the bottom line of supply chain dependent businesses

  • Maximizes reader insights into the current business challenges and strategies impacting Supply Chain Networks design, and examines the nature of production-distribution centres and facilities, of transportation means, of internalisation-externalization decisions, and of planning and control paradigms

  • Includes several example problems and exercises which can be solved with Excel tools (Analysis tools and Solver) or with commercial statistical and optimization software

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Supply Chains: Issues and Opportunities

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 1-43
  3. Performance Evaluation and Value Chains

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 45-83
  4. Supply Chain Planning and Execution

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 85-119
  5. SC Facilities and Activity Centers

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 121-160
  6. Transportation in the Supply Chain

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 161-206
  7. Supply Chain Partnerships

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 207-242
  8. Supply Chain Networks Optimization

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 243-287
  9. Strategic Capacity Planning

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 289-330
  10. Designing Multinational SC Networks

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 331-369
  11. Risk Analysis and Scenario Generation

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 371-416
  12. Designing Robust SCNs Under Risk

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 417-462
  13. SCNs for Sustainable Development

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 463-501
  14. SCN Reengineering Methodology

    • Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
    Pages 503-540
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 541-547

About this book





Winner of the 2016 Coup de Coeur prize at the Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain, Paris.



Focusing on the design of robust value-creating supply chain networks (SCN) and key strategic issues related to the number; location, capacity and mission of supply chain facilities (plants, distribution centers) – as well as the network structure required to provide flexibility and resilience in an uncertain world – this book presents an innovative methodology for SCN reengineering that can be used to significantly improve the bottom line of supply chain dependent businesses. Providing readers with the tools needed to analyze and model value creation activities, Designing Value-Creating Supply Chain Networks examines the risks faced by modern supply chains, and shows how to develop plausible future scenarios to evaluate potential SCN designs. The design methods proposed are based on a visual representation formalism that facilitates the analysis and modeling of SCN design problems, book chapters incorporate several example problems and exercises which can be solved with Excel tools (Analysis tools and Solver) or with commercial statistical and optimization software.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Université Laval, QUEBEC city, Canada

    Alain Martel

  • KEDGE-Business School, Bordeaux, France

    Walid Klibi

About the authors

Alain Martel, Ph. D., Eng. is a professor in the Operations and Decision Systems department at FSA ULaval in Quebec City, Canada. Alain Martel has been involved for over 35 years in research, consulting and commercial software development projects, as well as graduate course development, teaching, executive training and doctoral supervision in the field of supply chain engineering and management. 

Alain Martel’s research has been supported by several grants and was recognized by local and national awards. He has published books in operations research, business competitiveness and supply chain
management. He also publishes regularly in refereed scientific journals, and has provided
consulting services to numerous public and private organizations. He was involved in the development of SC-Studio, a commercial supply chain network design tool and is a co-founder and co-director of CIRRELT, a leading interuniversity research centre focussed on business networks, logistics and transportation.

Walid Klibi, Ph. D., MBA, is a professor of supply chain management at KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux, France, where he is actively involved in supply chain management research, teaching and executive training. He is the author of several scientific papers on the design of effective and robust supply chain networks and he is invited to speak to professional and scientific audiences on a regular basis.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Designing Value-Creating Supply Chain Networks

  • Authors: Alain Martel, Walid Klibi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28146-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28144-5Published: 07 April 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80283-1Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28146-9Published: 30 March 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 547

  • Number of Illustrations: 126 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Management, Industrial Organization

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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