Prompted by an article headlined: “IBM establishes single supply chain in internal organisation”, this blog argues that supply chains are so different from one another that to talk about “the supply chain”, as if it was one entity, does not do justice to the myriad ways in which they work across the globe. A useful primer for anyone investigating how complex supply chains can be in theory, let alone practice.
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