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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 4th Edition
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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 4th Edition

by Prof. Martin Christopher
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
10h 16m
English
Pearson Business
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In conventional supply chains each stage in the chain tends to be disconnected
from the others. Even within the same company the tendency is for separate func-
tions to seek to optimise their own performance. As a result the interfaces between
organisations and between functions within those organisations need to be buff-
ered with inventory and/or time lags. The effect of this is that end-to-end pipeline
times are long, responsiveness is low and total costs are high.
To overcome these problems it is clear that the supply chain needs to act as
a synchronised network – not as a series of separate islands. Synchronisation
implies that
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