This paper aims at investigating the relations between supply chain design decisions (i.e. number of supply chain levels, number of nodes at each level, number of sources for each node and distance between nodes) and supply chain performance (i.e. stock-outs at the retailer level) in a...

This article presents a new simulation-based meta-model to support logistics providers in sizing transhipment systems. The meta-model is made up of: a user interface with database (where system elements and their parameters are specified); a library of objects (which represent all the elements...