If you're an executive dealing with extended supply chains, you live with
stressand worry. Almost everything made today is manufactured by large
networksof companies. Hundreds, if not thousands, of companies provide
components, subassemblies, and major assemblies to a final manufacturer or
integrator.These large distributed supply chains have created problems and
headachesfor many industries.This book can help you prevent lost sales due to
inventory shortages, highcosts due to large inventories, work stoppage due to
loss of a key supplier, andsupply problems that may be causing a late
introduction of a new product.Today's supply chains are not only highly complex
in terms of the number ofcompanies involved but also dynamically