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CMPE 588 Project Proposal Dilek Demirel 2002700935 I will study a supply chain network instance as my term project. In a supply chain network, the stores and suppliers of a specific product are represented as nodes. A supplier can also be store and vice versa. There is a link between two nodes if the corresponding store/supplier gets products from the corresponding store/supplier. As a foresight, I expect this network to show scale-free characteristics. Most probably, there will be a very small number of nodes (one or two) which have a big number of outgoing links. These nodes represent the main factory/factories of the product. Most of the nodes will be end-stores, which do not sell product to other stores but only to users, must have small number of edges, expectedly one or two. I will try to find the degree distribution of the network and determine whether a supply chain network is scale free or not. The supply chain network instance I plan to study is the Mercedes Benz supply chain in Turkey, which I think to have a few hundreds of nodes. The instance may be subject to change due to the difficulties in obtaining training data.