Author(s)

Jiangbo Zheng

School of management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Based on the theory of complex network, this paper focuses on the planning of logistics nodes for strategic supply chain. I propose a practical mathematical modeling framework that simultaneously captures many practical aspects but still understated in the existing literatures of network planning problems. Moreover, capacity expansion and reduction sce-narios are also analyzed as well as modular capacity shifts for the fluctuation of demands. So this paper is of impor-tance for the research of network planning in strategic supply chain systems.

strategic supply chain, logistics nodes, complex network

Zheng, J. (2009) A Modeling Framework for the Planning of Strategic Supply Chain Viewed from Complex Network. Journal of Service Science and Management, 2, 129-135. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2009.22016.