Sting, Fabian J.; Huchzermeier, Arnd - In: European Journal of Operational Research 207 (2010) 2, pp. 725-735
Firms that source from offshore plants frequently perceive the lack of reliability and flexibility to be among the major drawbacks of their strategy. To mitigate against imminent mismatches of uncertain supply and demand, establishing capacity hedges in the form of responsive backup suppliers is...