Abstract
Over the last few years, Supply Chain management has received a lot of attention due to extensive globalisation of businesses. Designing or redesigning the physical Supply Chain in order to achieve certain business objectives is therefore becoming more and more important. As companies are sourcing, making and delivering products and services across the globe, several events like revision in local taxes, trade agreements, mergers and acquisitions force decision makers to rethink of variables like fixed costs in Supply Chain and variable costs like transportation cost, warehouse operating costs. Also in course of time, several products get added and several products become obsolete. As a result of this the old design of a Supply Chain becomes redundant. Thus structural changes in the Supply Chain, through physical configuration and reconfiguration, are required to help companies stop revenue leakages. This Paper focuses on Supply Chain Design (SCD), its importance in today's context and the tools available in the market to conduct this analysis.

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