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B U S IN E S S DE C I S I O N -M A K I NG Figure 5-2 Gephi (gephi.org), an open-source graph visualization and manipulation software program, can be used to highlight complexity and interlinks between supply chain tiers to derive a cost-efficient and sustainable setup (see Figure 5-2). Circos (circos.ca), which takes data from a table and converts it into a circular layout, can show the links between three types of blending products and their components to come up with the most economical component purchases (see Figure 5-3). Figure 5-3 44 | A N A LY T I C S - M A G A Z I N E . O R G W W W. I N F O R M S . O R G