Another note from Dan Gilmore on the idea of improving your supply chain. How much can you do it within the current parameters? Or should you be going after a major shift? A bit of the research background.
Fresh Thinking about the Poorly Understood Concept of Supply Chain TradeOff Curves
http://www.scdigest.com/assets/FIRSTTHOUGHTS/15-09-18-1.php?cid=9742&ctype=content