What Is Supply Chain Design?
- A discipline that aims to design the supply chain of tomorrow based on realistic modeling of company's current flows, policies, assets, and resources.
- Its goal is to continuously find the best balance between cost, service, and risk, as well as capital employed and Corporate Social Responsibility
- It allows for exploring scenarios and simulations to improve the current state or address future challenges.
- Its scope can be strategic (e.g., defining the necessary network of warehouses or factories in three years), tactical (e.g., selecting new transport modes or suppliers), or even highly operational (e.g., finding better routes or a more efficient allocation of products across production lines).