Comments on: Ralph Lauren’s Supply Chain: A Lot More Complex Then You Think! http://scm.ncsu.edu/blog/2012/10/11/ralph-laurens-supply-chain-a-lot-more-complex-then-you-think/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ralph-laurens-supply-chain-a-lot-more-complex-then-you-think Rob Handfield's Supply Chain Blog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:13:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Michael Feigin http://scm.ncsu.edu/blog/2012/10/11/ralph-laurens-supply-chain-a-lot-more-complex-then-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-2603 Michael Feigin Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:05:04 +0000 http://scm.ncsu.edu/blog/?p=873#comment-2603 We face many similar challenges at VF Corporation.
One thing that I somewhat disagree is that ““we never want to be the element that say “no” when the business has a supply chain issue”

Sometimes you have some small accounts that are simply too costly to serve. Those are usually some mom-and-pop shops that do not generate the volume. And shipping an order of 2 pairs of shoes is almost as expensive as shipping an order of 200. So, if you look at account profitability, supply chain may need to say no sometimes. The challenge here is having shared goals between the front-end and the back-end.

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