After reading the material in this chapter, you should be able to: To discuss the key performance measures necessary to achieve supply chain excellence. Inventories are often built up at the interface between partners. As a seamless integration of partners is crucial to overall supply chain performance, a thorough analysis of these interfaces (. inventories) is very important and will be explained in detail. Consequently, giving an overview on inventories and introducing a standardized analysis methodology will also be discussed. |