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Are we living with compromises?
Working with supply chain professionals across various industry sectors shows that the community is living with so many compromises, such as frozen schedule to vendors, see-saw between availability and freshness metrics, frozen production schedules, availability to forecast, large full truck loads, warehouses inoperative during periodic stock taking... Each of these compromises is often seen as inevitable.
We need to break each of these compromises by identifying the erroneous assumption behind them, questioning it and developing an alternate way of working. Unless we do that, supply chains would continue to experience recurring problems and perform at a sub-standard level.
The good news is that most of these compromises can be broken. However, the first step is to acknowledge that the compromises are not cast in stone.