As SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore noted in his First Thoughts column this week (see Oil Prices and Supply Chain Network Design), Dr. David Simchi-Levi of MIT and ILOG performed analysis over the past week to look at the impact of rising oil prices on the optimal supply chain design decisions of a real consumer goods company. His slides showing this analysis are available at the link below (click on the image).

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