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can be a lot of things: start forward buying to alleviate some of the shortages/price
increases, or examining if you can replace that commodity with something else, or
at least exploring the possibility. We hope these templates will help you to talk/fret
about these topics less, and actually do something.
Both green Lean and risk management/mitigation can be done quickly and with-
out the burden of any systems—a big chief pad will do, but it might be easier within
a database or spreadsheet. To be sure, we are not attempting to try to convey all of
the details involved in green or risk management; t