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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

5. Efficiency-Oriented Strategy

Author : Mikihisa Nakano

Published in: Supply Chain Management

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Typically, this is a strategy that is adopted by firms with regular products that have a strong position in the market and account for a high proportion of their sales. You might feel that SCM is not necessary for such firms because the demand uncertainty of regular products is low. However, an efficiency-oriented supply chain is clearly different than a “supply chain that does nothing special.” There may be no novelty in the structure and process matching of this strategy, but we can understand the basic internal and external structures and processes in its supply chain.

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Footnotes
1
Nikkei Newspaper “Hitachi: Unified new brand of its software” (2013 April 17).
 
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This case has been described on the basis of the interviews (final confirmation in August 2015).
 
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Nikkei Newspaper “JT speeds up the nationwide expansion schedule of its heat-not-burn tobacco products” (2018 May 2).
 
6
Nikkei Newspaper “JT aggregated the purchase of foreign leaf tobacco to its subsidiary” (2004 March 1).
 
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Nikkei Newspaper “JT acquired an UK dealer to strengthen the procurement capabilities” (2009 June 13); “JT acquired a Brazil-based dealer to procure leaf tobacco stably” (2009 July 23).
 
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Nikkei Sangyo “JT made a long-term supply contract with a Turkish dealer” (2012 January 12).
 
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Metadata
Title
Efficiency-Oriented Strategy
Author
Mikihisa Nakano
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Supply Chain Management

Print ISBN: 978-981-13-8478-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-13-8479-0

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8479-0_5