Methodological approaches to supply chain design
本文综述了供应链设计的方法论途径，包括整体设计流程和四个关键方面（目标定义、逆向供应链、财务、情景生成与使用），指出基于产品/市场分类的方法不适用，而分阶段方法更适合实践者，并提出了未来研究方向。
This paper reviews methodological approaches to the design (or redesign) of the supply chain (SC), including comprehensive approaches (proposals concerning the entire process of designing the SC) and those that deal with four specific aspects of the process (definition of the SC objectives, reverse SC, finance, and generation and use of scenarios) that have a decisive influence on the whole design of the SC. The comprehensive approaches include those based on typologies of products, markets and SCs and those that propose a succession of the stages to follow through the design process. The discussion shows that the use of typologies is not adequate to face SC design and that the methods proposing a succession of stages may suit, provided that they are developed and presented in a manner appropriate to their use for practitioners. The discussion leads also to suggest several research lines.