Supply Chain Management

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having bad facilities in a location like distribution channel and plants could cause inefficiency and additional costs even though its inventory and shipment schedule is well organized (Shen, 2007)

Ultimately supply chain design form the nature of supply chain it composes those choices that impacted investment patterns carried out by organization covering across its diverse supply chains. These decisions influence the capabilities of the supply chain particularly those types of issues that supply chain could and could not address and affect the types of correlation that emerge involving supply chain partners (Melnyk,Et al, 2013).

There is a great evidence of the increasing importance of supply chain design. According to (Melnyk,Et al, 2013), in today’s turbulent world, one of the most critical tools available to managers is that of supply chain design and redesign. Yet, this critical element, while frequently used, is poorly understood. As a result, by introducing this three-level framework it helps to understand the success of supply chain design which are influencers, designing decisions and constructing blocks (Melnyk,Et al, 2013).

It is very hard to comprehend and generalised supply chain design by any single content nor it is logical to study and explore the full content of its full factors as it is a rich concept. Though researcher will place it focus on studying the proposed framework so that potential knowledge factors of understanding this rich concept can be advance with assumptions basis of the framework with guidance of interesting research questions to gather efforts in enabling a research community to discover the complexity jigsaw and important factors towards building a successful supply chain design to meet customer needs and demands (Melnyk,Et al, 2013).

Overall in this conclusion that has been drawn from this dissertation is that supply chain design is ultimately a substantial competence in enhancing production productivity, quality of the product as well as customer loyalty and satisfactory. This dissertation includes focus on design decisions to enable quick responsiveness to uncertainty and variability. Research has shown that postponement, flexibility and inventory control are key problems in correspond to supply chain design for organization to sustain in the market as well as the current economic environment (Skintzi, n.d.). 

Reference List

Melnyk, S., Narasimhan, R. and DeCampos, H. (2013). Supply chain design: issues, challenges, frameworks and solutions. [online] Taylor & Francis. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207543.2013.787175 [Accessed 21 May 2017].

Willems, S. (1999). TWO PAPERS IN SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN: SUPPLY CHAIN CONFIGURATION AND PART SELECTION IN MULTIGENERATION PRODUCTS. [online] Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Available at: http://web.mit.edu/sgraves/www/Willems%20Th%201-25-99.pdf [Accessed 18 May 2017].

Shen, M. (2007). INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN MODELS: A SURVEY AND FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS. [online] Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research. Available at: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~shen/papers/paper34.pdf [Accessed 20 May 2017].

Skintzi, G. (n.d.). Supply Chain Design: An Overview. [online] Athens University of Economics and Business. Available at: https://www.dmst.aueb.gr/Documents/PhD/Phd_thesis/G_Skintzi.pdf [Accessed 19 May 2017].