The latest recession has gotten a profound impact on many supply chains and forced rethinking strategies . In a quest to reducing costs, many have diminished safety buffers, established lean thinking, and redesigned their flows. In that process they have made themselves more vulnerable to variance, while...
It's been a while since I last spoke about the HP Supply Chain and what we put in place to manage uncertainty and variance in the current economic conditions. Most of the best practices I have been discussing have actually been in place for a number of years now, but have proven very useful in the...