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Supply chain management provides a means of increase the competitive position of supply chain partners by balancing conflicting business objectives of efficiency and effectiveness, see Chapter 3. However, as nowadays supply chains are surrounded by a continuously evolving environment that increases both complexity and risk exposition, the decision-making process for supply chain problems is a very challenging task. Supply chain managers have to take strategic, tactical, and operational decisions for a diversity of problems, but in such an environment it is hardly possible to completely predict all potential consequences of their decisions [191].
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Heckmann, I. (2016). Simulation for Supply Chain Analysis. In: Towards Supply Chain Risk Analytics. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-14870-6_6
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