A 3 page paper discussing the need to carefully assess the results of changes in the supply chain before making those changes. Any significant change in the supply chain has the ability to affect more than only a single point on it. Before making any changes, managers must ensure that they identify all of those points, making changes only after analyzing all of the possible resulting effects. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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those areas within the paper (underlined) and added some more text in bold type. Introduction It has been said of the supply chain
that it is a series of linked suppliers and customers; every customer is in turn a supplier to the next downstream organization until goods in their final form reach the
ultimate end user. "Logistics" formerly was that area of the organization to which underperforming individuals were sent rather than being terminated. They arranged through excruciatingly slow methods the
transport and receipt of the organizations goods at various stages of the supply chain. Goods physically moved in much the same ways they do today, but the methods of
arranging that movement have changed dramatically in the early years of the new century. Supply chain applications in e-business certainly were not unknown prior to 2000, but it has
been only after that time that the "new" approach of managing the supply chain in the electronic environment has come to be viewed as the standard approach to moving goods
from one place to another along any specific organizations supply chain (Swaminathan and Tayur, 2003). Variables to Consider Prior to Changing the Supply Chain
One of the worst reasons to continue with any approach to accomplishing a task in todays business environment is "...because thats the way weve always done it." The
concept of continuous improvement (Deming, 1986) as well as the need to take advantage of more efficient means of achieving the same ends requires that organizations constantly be aware of
other approaches to operating their businesses. At minimum, the organization contemplating making changes in its supply chain needs to consider what types of goods are being moved; how quickly
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