CHAPTER 11
RightPlanSupply Chain Planning Strategy
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, But those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.”
—SOLOMON
I have been blessed to meet many prominent people in the course of my speaking engagements. One of those is General Gus Pagonis. He was the general in command of the U.S. Armed Forces during the liberation of Kuwait. He tells the story of their initial setup in the Kuwaiti summer when temperatures range between 110 and 120 degrees. During the setup he assigned five analysts to an air-conditioned trailer where they were ordered to run war simulations and to inform the general of any planning contingencies they had not already considered. One August afternoon one of the analysts ran ...
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