While reducing the product cycle, complex corporate joint ventures, and stricter requirements to customer service, it is necessary to consider a full range of supply chain management, from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouses, to require in store for finished products. Hewlett-Packard has developed a framework for addressing the uncertainty that plagues supplier performance, reliability, production and transport processes, and changing customer demands. Describes several instances in which whole families in the context of product re-evaluation of the supply chain. Methodology presented should help others manage their own supply chain more effectively. "Hide
by Tom Davis Source: MIT Sloan Management Review 14 pages. Publication Date: July 1, 1993. Prod. #: SMR007-PDF-ENG
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