Operations managers make numerous decisions in designing global supply chains. The key design decisions are as follows: strategy-supply chain should support an organization, strategy, mission, and competitive priorities, control- a second supply chain design decision is centralization versus decentralization, location- the location of facilities in a supply chain has a significant impact on cost, customer service, and data reliability, sustainability- sustainability is a key issue in supply chain, technology- dealing with intellectual properties is an issue for multinational enterprises and technology often provides a competitive edge, honor and protect patents from other countries, digital content- digital content in a goods and services is becoming extremely important, since services and goods can be enhance by means of Internet of Thing, sourcing- selecting suppliers from whom to purchase is a key design decision that also ties closely with the location decision, a key sourcing decision is whether to use a single source or multiple sources, logistic and transportation- transportation is more complex in the supply chain, global shipment often require multiple modes of transportation, managing risk- these risks are both strategic and tactical and requires every company to develop a risk mitigation strategy and plan, and measuring performance-what performance metric to use