CHAPTER 15

Is Your Supply Chain Organization Designed for Sustainable Success?

During my first scuba training class, I learned to calculate safe diving times using dive tables. Dive tables calculate dive times based on the depth of the dive. How many of you remember slide rules? The process when using dive tables is similar to using a slide rule. The task wasn’t difficult. It was just a nuisance. But we all learned to use dive tables proficiently because if we did not, we could get the bends, become injured, or might die.

When I purchased my first set of dive gear, dive computers were becoming common. They were highly functional, reliable, small (like the size of a hockey puck), and reasonably inexpensive. Dive computers do an excellent job of ...

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