A collection of dual sourcing web apps

Last updated on Aug 11, 2024 1 min read

There have been a number of apps developed for assessing the economics of dual sourcing in global supply chains recently. This web page collects these together for easy reference.

Dennis Zhang provides this shiny app to support the paper Boute, R. and Van Mieghem, J.A., (2015) Global Dual Sourcing and Order Smoothing: The Impact of Capacity and Leadtimes. Management Science, 61(9)2080-2099, 2015
Stephen Disney provides a shiny app to support the paper Boute, R., Disney, S.M., Gijsbrechts, J. and Van Mieghem, J.A., (2022), Dual sourcing and smoothing under non-stationary demand time series: Re-shoring with SpeedFactories. Management Science 68 (2), 1039-1057.
David Francas created this web app to support the paper Allon, G. and Van Mieghem, J.A., (2010), “Global Dual Sourcing: Tailored Base-Surge Allocation to Near- and Offshore Production”, Management Science, 56 (1), 110-124.

If you know of any other dual sourcing web apps or decision support tools, please let me know. I will be happy to link them here.

Stephen Disney

My research interests involve the application of control theory and statistical techniques to operations management and supply chain scenarios to investigate their dynamic, stochastic, and economic performance.