Sport Obermeyer

Hammond, J., and Raman, A. Sport Obermeyer. Harvard Business School, 695022-HCB-ENG, Cambridge, MA, October 13, 1994. 

The beneficial results don t just come from large firms, either. Small-and medium-size firms can reap improvements as well. Consider these examples of Level 4-type efforts. Sport Obermeyer worked to tightly... 

Other firms have tried to share information across the supply chain to minimize shortage situations. Firms such as Sport Obermeyer offer incentives to their large customers to preorder at least a part of their annual order. This information allows Sport Obermeyer to improve the accuracy of its own forecast and allocate production capacity accordingly. Once capacity has been allocated appropriately across different products, it is less likely that shortage situations will arise, thus dampening the inflation of orders. The availability of flexible capacity can also help in this regard, because flexible capacity can easily be shifted from a product whose demand is lower than expected to one whose demand is higher than expected. 

Hammond J, Raman A (1995) Sport Obermeyer, Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 5-696-012. 

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