Process Flexibility in Supply Chains

By S. Graves, Brian Tomlin. Management Sciences, 2003

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The design of robust value-creating supply chain networks (2010, background): “…associated to resource flexibility mechanism, such as capacity buffers (Sabri and Beamon, 2000 and Chopra and Sodhi, 2004), production shifting (Graves and Tomlin, 2003), overtime and subcontracting (Bertrand, 2003); safety stock pooling and placement strategies (Graves and Willems, 2003);…”
On the Value of Mix Flexibility and Dual Sourcing in Unreliable Newsvendor Networks (2005, methodology): “We refer the reader to Jordan and Graves (1995), Graves and Tomlin (2003), and Muriel et al.”
Strategic Technology Choice and Capacity Investment Under Demand Uncertainty (2007, background): “Graves and Tomlin (2003) extend this work to a multi-echelon supply chain setting.”
Planning for Disruptions in Supply Chain Networks (2006, background): “The objective of fortification models is to identify optimal strategies for allocating limited resources among possible mitigation investments.”
Benefits of Skill Chaining in Serial Production Lines with Cross-Trained Workers (2004, background): “The notion of chaining was introduced by Jordan and Graves (1995) in the context of process flexibility for a single-stage (i.”