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Large assembly supply chains, such as those found in the computer, consumer electronics, and automobile industries, usually support the production of multiple end-products where each end-product has a complex multi-level bill of material (BOM) consisting of hundreds, if not thousands, of components and subassemblies with widely varying lead times and costs. The end-products typically have many of these components and subassemblies in common. The supply chains are subject to demands for end-products which are highly volatile and notoriously difficult to forecast, yield and other quality problems, periodic engineering changes, frequent new product introductions, rapid obsolescence of end-products and components, and geographically dispersed production and vendor locations.
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Feigin, G.E. (1999). Inventory Planning in Large Assembly Supply Chains. In: Tayur, S., Ganeshan, R., Magazine, M. (eds) Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4949-9_24
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