SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN – WHERE TO ALLOCATE LOGISTICS FACILITY

Abstract

Current market condition make companies searching for every possibility how to better satisfy their customers either by higher level and scope of logistics services or by lower price than competitors. Supply chain design plays a key role in meeting corporate and supply chain strategy as establish a framework in which operation could be realised. Therefore it highly influences rate of customer satisfaction and efficiency not only of one company but of a whole supply chain. Supply chain design is a complex problem requiring involvement wide range of quantitative and qualitative factors. Regrettably, mainly quantitative ones are used as they can be more easily gathered and processes. Moreover, the fact that supply chain design has long been the area of operation research science concertation on quantitative data that could be incorporated into mathematical models prevailed among researchers. Therefore, authors of this paper want to outline the complexity of factors in both aspect quantitative and qualitative ones that should be used within supply chain design.