You’d laugh, after all that leanness, JIT etc., “slack” is in again. (No, not Nigel Slack‘s book on ops mgmt, though that one can be recommended, too.) Steven Melnyk actually went the extra mile to collect arguments why slack would be important in a supply chain, to enhance innovation capabilities, be “less fragile” – just one term is lacking, be more agile 
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