Inventory Strategy: Maximizing Financial, Service and Operations Performance with Inventory Strategy

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have been blessed for many years with wise, patient, and supportive business partners. I know them now better as friends. I am eternally grateful to Hugh Kinney, Juan Rubio, Masaji Nakano, Ricardo Sojo, Tammy Artosky, Harvey Donaldson, Lou Arace, and Steve Westphal, who have been in many supply chain trenches with me and invested much of themselves in me.

I am also fortunate to have two long-term joint venture partnerships that have worked with me to advance our field and serve a global client base. Our joint venture with Mitsubishi dates back many years. I am very grateful to Fujimoto-san, Kawakami-san, Matsukawa-san, Shibuya-san, and Takeushi-san for their excellent and diligent work, hospitality, friendship, and business ...