Key issues: This chapter addresses two key issues:
The supply chain ‘game plan’: addresses the challenges of planning and control-ling material flow and information flow within the focal firm, between supply partners and across the supply chain as a whole.
Just-in-time: examines the implications of just-in-time thinking for logisitcs, especially for material control methods like reorder point and material requirements planning.
Lean thinking: a cyclical route to seeking perfection by eliminating waste and thereby enriching value from the end-customer perspective.