Vendor Consolidation of Supply Chain Saves Customer Lead Time and Money Objective Lower costs, decrease lead time and maintain or improve quality by consolidating a large number of vendors into a single supply chain for a series of doors used to house computer hardware. Considerations Our customer was using 13 vendors to create doors of varying heights to cover and protect computer hardware. Each of these pieces was traveling across the U.S.-one or more times-to be altered or assembled, significantly increasing costs and lead times for each order. Solution We were asked to take responsibility for the entire production chain while decreasing costs and production time. We began by identifying what portions of the production process we could handle internally, and which pieces needed to be ha

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