Specifically what needs to happen is that there needs to be better coordination with suppliers, both between them and among them, to ensure that all supplies required to fulfill the orders from
Europe. The coordination of demand with the customer, the focus on
keeping the process optimized, and ensuring suppliers are coordinated
with are critical.
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. New orders are quickly taken from Europe as there is excess capacity
in the factories and forecasting forces an inventory build-up in front

This becomes a major issue, and also forces the company to push deliveries out to four weeks from two weeks.
Collaborative forecasting and inventory planning continues with the
customer to make sure they are fully informed as to the delay.
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. Change management from both a production process and personnel
management standpoint are now the critical concerns, and the lessons
learned specifically in the areas of defining core business process
change are also evaluated.