Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It’s probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Graph Theory. That was when I was writing my thesis for my MSc in GIS on Network Analysis in Raster GIS, and while I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never expected to see it in Supply Chain Management. Now, Stephan M. Wagner and Nikrouz Neshat are using it in their 2009 paper Assessing the vulnerability of supply chains using graph theory. That is a novel approach, but does it work?

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