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In this chapter, we present some of the issues involved in the practice of supply chain design and planning. These are issues that are often not dealt with in traditional operations research analyses. However, they are essential in transforming raw data and problem characteristics into modeling assumptions, input data, and decisions.

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Simchi-Levi, D., Chen, X., Bramel, J. (2014). Network Planning. In: The Logic of Logistics. Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9149-1_20

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