Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

| January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments
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This article from Harvard Business Review illustrates how a lack of planning can make even a horrible natural disaster’s impact even more destructive. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused many supply chains to fail – affecting not only Japan but the whole world’s production lines. The article explains how this supply chain “shake up” radically modifies the understanding of strategies in production and redundancy.

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