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Network Design in
the Supply Chain

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Chopra and Meindl Supply Chain Management, 5e
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 Learning Objectives
1. Understand the role of network design in a
supply chain.
2. Identify factors influencing supply chain
network design decisions.
3. Develop a framework for making network
design decisions.
4. Use optimization for facility location and
capacity allocation decisions.

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 Network Design Decisions
• Facility role
– What role, what processes?
• Facility location
– Where should facilities be located?
• Capacity allocation
– How much capacity at each facility?
• Market and supply allocation
– What markets? Which supply sources?

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 Factors Influencing
Network Design Decisions
• Strategic factors
• Technological factors
• Macroeconomic factors
– Tariffs and tax incentives
– Exchange-rate and demand risk
– Freight and fuel costs
• Political

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 Factors Influencing
Network Design Decisions
• Infrastructure factors
• Competitive factors
– Positive externalities between firms
– Locating to split the market
• Customer response time and local
presence
• Logistics and facility costs

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 Framework for Network Design
Decisions
• Phase I: Define a Supply Chain
Strategy/Design
– Clear definition of the firm’s competitive
strategy
– Forecast the likely evolution of global
competition
– Identify constraints on available capital
– Determine growth strategy

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 Framework for Network Design
Decisions Figure 5-2

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 Framework for Network Design
Decisions
• Phase II: Define the Regional Facility
Configuration
– Forecast of the demand by country or region
– Economies of scale or scope
– Identify demand risk, exchange-rate risk,
political risk, tariffs, requirements for local
production, tax incentives, and export or
import restrictions
– Identify competitors

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 Framework for Network Design
Decisions
• Phase III: Select a Set of Desirable
Potential Sites
– Hard infrastructure requirements
– Soft infrastructure requirements
• Phase IV: Location Choices

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 Models for Facility Location and
Capacity Allocation
• Maximize the overall profitability of the
supply chain network while providing
customers with the appropriate
responsiveness
• Many trade-offs during network design
• Network design models used to decide on
locations and capacities and to assign
current demand to facilities

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 Models for Facility Location and
Capacity Allocation
• Important information
– Location of supply sources and markets
– Location of potential facility sites
– Demand forecast by market
– Facility, labor, and material costs by site
– Transportation costs between each pair of sites
– Inventory costs by site and as a function of quantity
– Sale price of product in different regions
– Taxes and tariffs
– Desired response time and other service factors

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 Phase II: Network Optimization Models

Figure 5-3

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model
= number of potential plant locations/capacity
= number of markets or demand points = 1 if plant i is open, 0 otherwise
= annual demand from market j = quantity shipped from plant i
to market j
= potential capacity of plant i

= annualized fixed cost of keeping plant i open

= cost of producing and shipping one unit from plant i to market j (cost
includes production, inventory, transportation, and tariffs)

subject to

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-4

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-5

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-5

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 Phase III: Gravity Location Models

Figure 5-6

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 Gravity Location Model
xn, yn: coordinate location of either a market or supply
source n
Fn : cost of shipping one unit for one mile between
the facility and either market or supply source n
Dn: quantity to be shipped between facility and
market or supply source n
(x, y) is the location selected for the facility, the distance dn between the
facility at location (x, y) and the supply source or market n is given by

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 Gravity Location Model

Figure 5-7

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 Gravity Location Model
Coordinates
Transportation Cost Quantity in Tons
Sources/Markets $/Ton Mile (Fn) (Dn) xn yn
Supply sources
Buffalo 0.90 500 700 1,200
Memphis 0.95 300 250 600
St. Louis 0.85 700 225 825
Markets
Atlanta 1.50 225 600 500
Boston 1.50 150 1,050 1,200
Jacksonville 1.50 250 800 300
Philadelphia 1.50 175 925 975
New York 1.50 300 1,000 Table 5-1
1,080
Total transportation cost

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 Gravity Location Model

Figure 5-8

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 Gravity Location Model

Figure 5-8

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 Gravity Location Model
1. For each supply source or market n, evaluate dn
2. Obtain a new location (x’, y’) for the facility, where

3. If the new location (x’ , y’ ) is almost the same as

(x, y) stop. Otherwise, set (x, y) = (x’ , y’ ) and go to
step 1

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 Phase IV: Network Optimization Models

Demand City
Production and Transportation Cost
per Thousand Units (Thousand $)
Monthly Monthly
Capacity Fixed Cost
Supply Chicag (Thousand (Thousand
City Atlanta Boston o Denver Omaha Portland Units) K $) f
Baltimore 1,675 400 985 1,630 1,160 2,800 18 7,650
Cheyenne 1,460 1,940 970 100 495 1,200 24 3,500
Salt Lake 1,925 2,400 1,450 500 950 800 27 5,000
City
Memphis 380 1,355 543 1,045 665 2,321 22 4,100
Wichita 922 1,646 700 508 311 1,797 31 2,200
Monthly 10 8 14 6 7 11
demand
(thousand
units) Dj Table 5-2

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 Network Optimization Models
• Allocating demand to production facilities
= number of factory locations
= number of markets or demand points xij = quantity shipped from
= annual demand from market j factory i to market j
= capacity of factory i
= cost of producing and shipping one unit from factory i to market j

subject to

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 Network Optimization Models
• Optimal demand allocation
Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Omaha Portland

TelecomOne Baltimore 0 8 2

Memphis 10 0 12

Wichita 0 0 0

HighOptic Salt Lake 0 0 11

Cheyenne 6 7 0

Table 5-3

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

• Merge the companies

• Solve using location-specific costs
yi = 1 if factory i is open, 0 otherwise
xij = quantity shipped from factory i to market j

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-9

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-10
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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-10

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 Capacitated Plant Location Model

Figure 5-11

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 Capacitated Model With
Single Sourcing
• Market supplied by only one factory
• Modify decision variables
yi = 1 if factory i is open, 0 otherwise
xij = 1 if market j is supplied by factory i, 0 otherwise

subject to

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 Capacitated Model With
Single Sourcing

Figure 5-12

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 Capacitated Model With
Single Sourcing
• Optimal network configuration with single
sourcing
Open/
Closed Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Omaha Portland
Baltimore Closed 0 0 0 0 0 0

Cheyenne Closed 0 0 0 0 0 0

Salt Lake Open 0 0 0 6 0 11

Memphis Open 10 8 0 0 0 0

Wichita Open 0 0 14 0 7 0

Table 5-4

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 Locating Plants and Warehouses
Simultaneously

Figure 5-13

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 Locating Plants and Warehouses
Simultaneously
• Model inputs
m = number of markets or demand points
n = number of potential factory locations
l = number of suppliers
t = number of potential warehouse locations
Dj = annual demand from customer j
Ki = potential capacity of factory at site i
Sh = supply capacity at supplier h
We = potential warehouse capacity at site e
Fi = fixed cost of locating a plant at site i
fe = fixed cost of locating a warehouse at site e
chi = cost of shipping one unit from supply source h to
factory i
cie = cost of producing and shipping one unit from
factory i to warehouse e
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 Locating Plants and Warehouses
Simultaneously
• Goal is to identify plant and warehouse locations
and quantities shipped that minimize the total
fixed and variable costs
Yi = 1 if factory is located at site i, 0
otherwise
Ye = 1 if warehouse is located at site e, 0
otherwise
xej = quantity shipped from warehouse e
to market j
xie = quantity shipped from factory at site
i to warehouse e
xhi = quantity shipped from supplier h to
factory at site i

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 Locating Plants and Warehouses
Simultaneously
subject to

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 Summary of Learning Objectives
1. Understand the role of network design
in a supply chain
2. Identify factors influencing supply
chain network design decisions
3. Develop a framework for making
network design decisions
4. Use optimization for facility location
and capacity allocation decisions

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