Make vs. Buy Revisited
Make or buy? To answer this classic manufacturing question, leading companies avoid the temptation to “feed the beast.” Instead, they focus on their core competencies and keep their long-term strategies in mind.
Content: Article | Authors: Fidel Tamayo, Patrick Van den Bossche | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Operations, Strategy
Shifting Your Supply Chain into Reverse
“Satisfaction guaranteed” is still promised by many retailers today. But what happens to those returned products? How do the retailer and the manufacturer handle them? Both have traditionally focused on delivering goods to customers, not on managing their return in an efficient manner. The handling of returned products, often called reverse logistics, is an often-neglected part of an otherwise efficient supply chain.
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Content: Article | Authors: Charles Harthan, Patrick Van den Bossche, Sean Monahan | Source: Kearney | Subject: Operations