Synergy across merged supply chains

Estimating Synergy Across Merged Supply Chains... 

This section focuses on identifying synergies across merged supply chains. Our example involves a major US drug manufacturer and distributor that decided to form an alliance with a European counterpart. The alliance was expected to generate significant cost reductions and efficiency improvements as products were rationalized, production locations, and warehouses consolidated, and so on. But how much value could be realized by such actions, given the details of each company s supply chain ... 

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