Yes. If supply chain management was just efficiency and forecasting, it wouldn’t be it’s own giant department in many manufacturing organizations. There is an

Yes. If supply chain management was just efficiency and forecasting, it wouldn’t be it’s own giant department in many manufacturing organizations. There is an entire contracts negotiation side to it. Which is really fuzzy and filled with all sorts of intentional inefficiencies (price-wise) brought about by competing interests and incentives.