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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 6th Edition
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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 6th Edition

by Martin Christopher
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
11h 7m
English
FT Publishing International
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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 process alignment there is in effect one set of numbers ...

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ISBN: 9781292416205