Textbook: Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
1a. Business competition has shifted from company versus company to supply chain versus supply chain. The scope of strategic fit comprises of functions with an organizations and all stages in the supply chain. Discuss the above two statements and provide an industry example to support the two statements.
1b. What do you understand by demand uncertainty, implied demand uncertainty, and supply uncertainty? Identify an organization and describe the different sources of uncertainty the organization faces in each of the above categories.
Chopra, S. and Meindl, P. (2016). Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operations (6th ed.). US: Pearson