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Hybrid Strategy

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A hybrid strategy, that is, both efficiency- and responsiveness-oriented strategy, is ideal for adoption only by firms that can reduce demand uncertainty through some ingenuities. Therefore, some advanced structures (internal: integrated organization; external: partnerships with main suppliers and customers) and processes (internal: postponement, sales and operations planning; external: collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment) are explained.

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Nakano, M. (2020). Hybrid Strategy. In: Supply Chain Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8479-0_7

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