- Review “Lenovo: Moving Full-Speed Ahead” on pages 201–211 in your textbook, Strategic Supply Chain Management.
- Respond to the following topics and questions:
- What were the drivers for Lenovo to build, in 2012, a manufacturing facility in Whitsett, North Carolina instead of in low-cost regions such as Asia or Mexico?
- How did Lenovo transform from a local supply chain company to a well-known and integrated global supply chain organization?
- What metrics had Lenovo used to evaluate its end-to-end supply chain performance?
- What were Lenovo’s dual operating models and how well did these two models work for its global supply chain?
Reference
Cohen, S., & Roussel, J. (2013). Strategic supply chain management: The five disciplines for top performance (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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