Multimarket facility network design with offshoring applications

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-108

  Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan ^a   Van Mieghem, Jan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity investment; Commonality; Location; Newsvendor network; Transshipment

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY INVESTMENT; COMMONALITY; DEMAND RISKS; FINAL ASSEMBLY; LOGISTICS COSTS; LOW-WAGE COUNTRIES; MANUFACTURING COST; NETWORK CAPACITY; NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK DESIGN PROBLEMS; NEWSVENDOR NETWORK; OFF-SHORING; ON-DEMAND; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; OPTIMALITY; SCALE ECONOMIES; TRADE BARRIERS; TRANSPORTATION COST; TRANSSHIPMENT; TWO-PRODUCT;

ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS;

COSTS;

EID: 67649976494     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1070.0198     Document Type: Article

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