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The Quest for Market Responsiveness
February 25, 2008

Lean initiatives are often narrowly defined based on a market snapshot rather than an understanding that market conditions continuously change, and market events can occur that can disrupt existing plans. These initiatives result in excessive trimming in an attempt to take out inventories from the entire supply chain, which makes it difficult to react...

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