Manufacturing Industry
Accurate forecasts are essential.(Stratex Networks)
Purchasing, May, 2006 by Teague, Paul E.
Paul E. Teague You've heard of business-to-business companies and business-to-consumer companies. This is a story about a business-to-country company. Stratex Networks develops, products to enable development of complex communications networks, for the transport of data, voice and video.
The $200 million company's customer list reads like a United Nations roster: France Telecom/Orange, Centertel Poland, Panafon Greece, China Unicom and MTN Africa, among others. And now, the company is providing product for Iraq. "Our supply chain operations very challenging," says Paul Hanz, agile support analyst at Stratex. They're challenging, in part, because of the discrepancy between the leadtimes required by the customers--ranging from three to six...
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