Rapid-Fire Fulfillment

Kasra Ferdows, Michael Lewis, José Antonio Domínguez Machuca

Harvard business review · 2004 · 248 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

To maximize your entire supply chain, you may have to make some pretty counterintuitive moves- like sending trucks away from the warehouse half empty or running factories only during the day shift. Find out why such penny-foolish tactics add up to a pound-wise strategy.