The supply chain is the core of any business. Most people attribute the supply chain to that of a large corporation, but every business has a supply chain. You have suppliers, purchasing, production, distribution, and finally customers. The end result of every supply chain is always customers. The problem with any supp...
Twenty years ago it was pretty easy to hide a breakdown in the supply chain from your customers. You could make up for a slowdown in production by speeding up shipping or increasing your acceptable rate of failure on products to higher levels and making up for it on warranty exchanges. Customers in general moved at a s...