Chicken Run - The Poultry supply chain

Question 1 How might Wings and Legs combine a lean and agile approach in its supply chain? The lean and agile paradigms, while particularly different, can be and have been joint within effectively designed and operated total supply chains. In the Wings and Legs case, cost is an important market winner and this is reduced by leanness. In the case of agility the key point is that Wings and Legs operate in an extremely volatile marketplace. …

…chain:- 1.High delivery reliability causes a downstream effect on the decoupling point 2.Short delivery time causes a downstream effect on the decoupling point. 3.Unpredictability of demand causes a downstream effect on the decoupling point 4.Wings and Legs high lead times cause a downstream effect on the decoupling point Therefore information on delivery reliability, delivery times, demand patterns and lead times should flow downstream in order for Wings and Legs to match supply and demand.