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Problem Solution: Kuiper Leda
Supply chain management refers to the process that aims to satisfy, with optimal efficiency, customer requirements through the planning, control, and implementation of supply chain operations. According to Hau L. Lee, a professor at the Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering at Stanford, "supply chain management involves the flows of material, information, and finance in a network consisting of customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors" (2000, p. 31). In other words, supply chain management entails a set of interactions among several entities, each taking a distinct role, in a network across which materials, finance, and information flow (Kotrill, 2002). A substantial amount of activities are executed and harmonized within, as well as between, organizations; every firm or company engages in at least one supply chain interaction relationship with another. The effective management of complex global supply chains, according to Lee (2000, p. 32), entails "tight integration between partners." It is like a pair ballroom dancers on the floor needing constant synchrony to deliver the dance routine well. Undoubtedly, supply chain management has become a global organization's most potent business tool for cost reduction while improving production performance and reliability, as well as customer satisfaction.
At this time of immense complexity, with the business environment constantly changing, Kuiper Leda confronts the need take time to simplify anything in their current operation that is unnecessarily complicated. Simplicity is a positive feature in these rapidly accelerating times. Simplification not only streamlines business operations but al ...