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Even C-level executives are coming over to the environmental side. And their message is clear: The business world is getting serious about getting green.
Supply chain management by its very nature depends on relationships and connections. In this excerpt from their recent book, Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: An Essential Guide for the 21st Century, the authors first describe some of the relationships that play an important role in achieving supply chain success. In the following section, they focus on consultants, looking at how they operate and when it makes sense to use them or not.
While insisting on order might be obsessive-compulsive in a business sense, organized thinking lies somewhere between desirable and absolutely required.
The concepts of quick changeovers, short runs, customer/channel-specific processes, and lean are no longer simply tickets to best-practice land; they are requirements for survival.