During recent times, many organizations have recognized tremendous progress in effectiveness and efficiency by adopting a pull strategy that establishes the pace of production at the rate of customer demand. Additional advantages accrue when a similar strategy is applied to the supply chain, as is seen with the adoption of just-in-time (JIT) approaches. However, such approaches can have disastrous effects when there is strategic misalignment between organizations. It was introduce a new conception of supply-chain …showed first 75 words of 1730 total…

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