Horseshoes offers a model of a complex relationship to the present, most Chinese relations and the United States partners in the supply chain can be rendered productive. Possessed metaphorically, horseshoes also shows how important global trend can rise for many Chinese-American supply chain, and why this trend may impose serious threats to the economic interests of the United States for many years. Because the tendency is independent of almost all domestic companies of potential responses, only in rare cases involving domestic threat be eliminated in particular the U.S. / Chinese supply chain. Most companies in the U.S. have the critical features that could reduce the effect new Chinese threat: the ability to manage and perform the essential functions of the supply chain more creatively. As horseshoe illustrates, many domestic firms may soon be forced to become more creative. To meet this need, the work of the supply chain matrix model developed in this paper. The model demonstrates how domestic firms supply chain can stimulate and identify excellent ideas of their management and subordinate ranks, thus expanding the creative performance of the company in the strategic implementation of the key functions of the supply chain. The firms should be better able to protect themselves from these new Chinese threat. "Hide
by David Strutton Source: Business Horizons 13 pages. Publication Date: January 15, 2008. Prod. #: BH308-PDF-ENG
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