LOGISTIC S & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
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The foundations of agility
It will be apparent that agility is not a single company concept but rather it extends
from one end of the supply chain to the other. The concept of agility has significant
implications for how organisations within the supply/demand network relate to each
other and how they can best work together on the basis of shared information.
To bring these ideas together, a number of basic principles can be identified as
the starting point for the creation of the agile supply chain.
1 Synchronise activities through shared information
Synchronisation implies that all parties in the supply chain are ‘marching to the
same drumbeat’. In other words, through shared information and proce ...