In: Finance
the supply chain network (SCN) design problem has been gaining importance due to increasing competitiveness introduced by the market globalization. However, a general supply chain network design is a critical and difficult decision. Traditionally, supply chain network designs cover a wide range of subject areas including multiple layers, members, periods and products, and a comparative resource constraint existing between different layers. Many studies focus on location and inventory decision. But, few considered the performance of SCN such as vulnerability, stability and so on. In fact, an important component in SCN design and evaluation is the establishment of appropriated performance measures including qualitative and quantitative ones, where customer satisfaction, flexibility, and effective risk management belong to qualitative performance measures, and cost minimization, fill rate maximization and so on belong to quantitative ones.