Article ID: | iaor20164665 |
Volume: | 63 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 555 |
End Page Number: | 571 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Zhang Jiawei, Wang Xuan |
Keywords: | supply & supply chains, production: FMS, demand, management, simulation |
Process flexibility has been widely applied in many industries as a competitive strategy to improve responsiveness to demand uncertainty. An important flexibility concept is the long chain proposed by Jordan and Graves (1995) [Jordan WC, Graves SC (1995) Principles on the benefits of manufacturing process flexibility.