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How do sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution strategies relate to each other?

How do these strategies relate to the global value chain?

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This solution helps explore business strategies with regards to sourcing, manufacturing and distribution - as well as how these specific strategies relate to the global value chain.

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As we can see in the figure (attachment), sourcing and manufacturing are interrelated. Sourcing is done based on the input received from manufacturing and this is the reason it requires co-makership, requirements planning and schedule coordination to meet with the manufacturing requirements. As far as manufacturing is concerned it is related with both sourcing as well as ...

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