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This 5 page paper discusses the concept of the “leagile” supply chain and how it can be applied to the U.S. Marine Corps. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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whether they are manufacturing refrigerators, processing meat or defending the country. This paper uses an article by van der Vorst, et al, as a springboard for a discussion of changes
in supply chains and how this affects the U.S. Marine Corps, which has recently made a change to the way it handles its own supplies. Discussion In their article, van
der Vorst and his colleagues note that a lot of attention has recently been paid to supply chain management, with the idea of improving it (Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001).
One expert, Marshall Fisher, believes that it is vital to consider the "nature of the demand for the product" before going on to devise a supply chain to meet that
demand (Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001). Fisher believes that products generally fall into two categories, those that are mostly functional and those that are innovative; functional products meet basic needs
and have "stable, predictable demand and long life cycles typically with high levels of competition resulting in low profit margins" (Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001, p. 74). The supply chains
for products like this should be lean and efficient in order to minimize the "physical costs related to production, transportation and inventory storage" (Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001, p. 74).
Innovative products usually have larger profit margins, but the demand for such goods is unpredictable and their life cycles are usually shorter, though there is a greater variety of such
products (Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001). The supply chains for products like these need to be agile, so that they can focus on responsiveness and have the ability to minimize
"market mediation costs," which the authors define as the costs that arise when the products reaching the market are not those consumers want, a situation that results in dissatisfied customers
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