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Your Supply Chain to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

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And if your master plan isn’t streamlined, your flow of value cannot have high quality, consistency, and continuity. Late deliveries, poor part quality, and long lead times can all make critical components unavailable. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common.

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Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations

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On the contrary, you should be exploring all your procurement options globally, nationally, and locally. It also helps put the importance of quality in perspective. This isn’t to say you should avoid international sources for goods. You understand why everything can’t be scrapped and reworked on a whim. Study the local competition.

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Your Supply Chain to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

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And if your master plan isn’t streamlined, your flow of value cannot have high quality, consistency, and continuity. Late deliveries, poor part quality, and long lead times can all make critical components unavailable. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common.