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Introduction of SCM

competition offers. However, supply chain strategies can shift the entire curve, lowering your inventory levels without adversely affecting your customers (or the reverse, improving customer service levels with no increase in inventory). How might this work? Through effective supply chain management you may be able to reduce lead times. This would shift the curve to the right, speeding up customer response times without raising inventories. Supply Chain Module SCM106 reviews a strategy called postponement, or risk pooling, that can lower the curve, allowing you to maintain (or enhance) service levels with less finished-goods inventory. This tradeoff curve provides a perfect example of how silo behavior (in which functional areas lose sight of cross-functional optimizations) can cause problems in supply chains. One of the first steps in improving a supply chain is making sure that organizational responsibility for inventory levels and