A study of leagility and supply chain design

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In the context of a dynamic and hyper-competitive business environment, appropriate design of supply chains helps organisations to align resources for improved flow of products and services and satisfy customers’ diverse needs. Researchers have proposed several supply chain designs which are mutually exclusive such as efficient versus responsive, and lean versus agile. Quantitative testing of these designs revealed that many firms’ supply chain designs do not match with what was conceptually expected.<br><br>In this research, a new approach to supply chain leagility is investigated, proposing all supply chains are leagile with different magnitudes of leanness and agility. In this regard, a new index, ‘deviation from leagility’ (DFL), is introduced, and employed in this study to optimise supply chain design. DFL is the absolute distance of supply chain design from a balanced supply chain. Balanced supply chain is a position where the magnitude of leanness and agility is equal. A compreh

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