An exploration of facility location metrics in international supply chain

Denise Ravet ()
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Denise Ravet: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: Companies could gain competitive advantage through the supply chain network. Especially facility location represent possible source of cost and service performance improvement. The goal of this article is to explore and expose what could be the facility key performance indicators. A literature review is conducted to examine research relating to supply chain network distribution performance measurement, facility location and KPIs on global and local level. An exploration of the supply chain performance literature reveals global and local KPIs that could used for the facility location measurement. A list of key performance metrics related to facility location is presented.

Keywords: glocal strategy; distribution network design; facility location; supply chain performance measurement; KPIs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06-28
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Published in Trends in International Business 2012, Jun 2012, Lyon, France. pp.19

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