Strategic trade-offs

Making the Right Strategic Trade-Offs Abont Redncing Uncertainty 11.10 Conclusions... 

Making the right strategic trade-offs between quality and throughput when working out how to enrich or filter the forward pipeline and how... 

Gangestad SW, Simpson JA 2000 The evolution of mating trade-offs and strategic pluralism. Behav Brain Sci 23, in press... 

Display the trade-offs of strategic choices (centralization vs. decentralization). 

Despite these recent studies, a critical gap in the literature remains in assessing the trade-offs between supply chain efficiency (i.e., total logistics costs) and supply chain responsiveness (i.e., supply delivery time, demand fulfillment) for aerial delivery operations in the entire military HA/DR supply chain network. None of these previous studies considered the delivery of HA/DR consumable aid via aerial delivery mechanisms. Further, none of these previous studies considered the trade-offs of response time, total cost, and amount of demand satisfied. Therefore, we seek to fill the gap in the literature while providing military HA/DR decision makers with strategic decision support using a multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) framework. 

LOCATION Deciding where a company will locate its facilities constitutes a large part of the design of a supply chain. A basic trade-off here is whether to centralize to gain economies of scale or to decentralize to become more responsive by being closer to the customer. Companies must also consider a host of issues related to the various characteristics of the local area in which the facility is situated. These include macroeconomic factors, quality of workers, cost of workers, cost of facility, availability of infrastructure, proximity to customers, the location of that firm s other facilities, tax effects, and other strategic factors. 

In this phase 1 we will only debate a small number of points that give rise to difficulties, which are both specific to this initial phase and strategic in terms of decision-making and trade-offs. 

The management should also understand the measures that have been removed from the safety plan and the reasons for making these sacrifices (often strategic, financial or trade-offs against other priorities). 

We have just reviewed the key dimensions involved in offsetting risks within the enterprise. We will now see how to assess the margin for compromise within the intervention case/safety plan in order to prepare effectively for possible trade-offs dnring discussions at the strategic level. 

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