This book provides some regional aspects considered by manufacturing firms in their decisions
to gain competitiveness and have effects on the performance of their supply chains (SC). Some
of the main aspects considered are: government's policies fixed costs the availability and
quality of infrastructure services. This book also discusses the risks for the SC based on a
perception approach some aspects studied are: demand suppliers and production processes and
how these are related to other elements of the SC. The authors use structural modeling to
analyze the evaluation of some manufacturing practices and their impact on customer service
satisfaction agility and flexibility of the SC. The context of this study is immersed in the
Mexican manufacturing industry of exportation also known as maquiladora industry of Ciudad
Juarez México. This borderland is among the top 10 manufacturing Mexican cities. World class
industries are located in this region and have been recognized around the world for their
competitiveness and high performance. Therefore the methods and results exposed in this book
may be valuable and useful for readers and researchers of the SC worldwide.
