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Harvard Business Review on Managing Supply Chains

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Find and fix your weakest links.If you need the best practices and ideas for making your supply chain strong and agile--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.This collection of HBR articles will help you:- Use your supply chain as a competitive weapon- Gain customers' trust by revealing where yourproducts come from- Collaborate with other companies--even rivals--to achieve scale- Make smart decisions about where to manufacture- Pick the most profitable supply chain for your products- Align partners' interests with your own- Revamp your supply chain to meet green goals
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204 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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  • jorge18821has quoted5 years ago
    When a company is organized for direct, quick, and rich communications among those who manage its supply chain, it’s easier to set a steady rhythm. Conversely, a strict schedule for moving information and goods through the supply chain makes it easier for operators at different steps to communicate with one another. And when the company focuses its own capital assets on responsiveness, it becomes simpler to maintain this rhythm.
  • jorge18821has quoted5 years ago
    Once a company has accepted the uncertainty of demand, it can employ three coordinated strategies to manage that uncertainty. It can continue to strive to reduce uncertainty—for example, by finding sources of new data that can serve as leading indicators or by having different products share common components as much as possible so that the demand for components becomes more predictable. It can avoid uncertainty by cutting lead times and increasing the supply chain’s flexibility so that it can produce to order or at least manufacture the product at a time closer to when demand materializes and can be accurately forecast. Finally, once uncertainty has been reduced or avoided as much as possible, it can hedge against the remaining residual uncertainty with buffers of inventory or excess capacity.
  • jorge18821has quoted5 years ago
    To turn your supply chain into a powerful competitive weapon, you need to apply six key practices, advise Slone, Mentzer, and Dittmann.

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