These slides are a sumup of a paper about supply chain strategy. If you wanna understand more, you can search the original paper on internet. Title is Aligning supply chain strategies with product uncertainty, Hau L. Lee, California Management Review, VOL.44, NO.3, Spring 2002. which given many case examples.

1. HOW TO APPLY THE
RIGHT SUPPLY CHAIN
STRATEGIES WITH
PRODUCT
UNCERTAINTIES ?

2. a.Why Should We Align Supply Chain
Strategy?
b.Supply Chain Strategies in the
Information Era
c.Setting Up a Right Supply Chain
Strategy to Match Product
Uncertainty

3. Products which have different
characteristics may face different
demand and supply uncertainties.
So , how can we identify?
The Uncertainty Framework

5. How to reduce
uncertainties?

7. a.Demand uncertainty reduction strategies
Sharing demand information and synchronized
planning across the supply chain with the internet
Cases: Barilla & Nabisco and Wegmans
b.Supply uncertainty reduction strategies
1. Free exchanges of information along with product
life cycle
2.Early design collaboration
Cases: The Micro-Compact Car
3. Supplier hubs
Cases: Fritz

8. a. Efficient Supply Chains (Cutting costs as much as possible)
Maximizing cost efficiencies on cross transmission of information in
the supply chain by refusing non-value added actions, reaching a
scale economy, and using optimization techniques, etc.
b. Risk-Hedging Supply Chains
Pooling and sharing resources in a supply chain to diversify risks in
supply disruption.
c. Responsive Supply Chains
Being responsive and flexible to the changing and diverse needs of
consumers
Build-to-order and mass customization models
d. Agile Supply Chains
A combination of responsive to consumer needs and risk
diversification

10. a. Functional products with stable supply processes
For products which have both low demand and supply uncertainties,
efficiency is the only competitive advantage and costs and
information coordination are two elements of efficiency.
b. Functional products with evolving supply processes
Those products which have low demand uncertainty but a high
supply uncertainty, represent a high risks in supply chain, so a Risk-hedging
supply chain can contribute to reduce the risks.
c. Innovative products with stable supply processes
With a highly unpredictable demand and short product life cycle,
excessive inventory can cause a significant storage cost.
d. Innovative products with evolving supply processes
Products with both high demand and supply uncertainties should
reduce the uncertainties from two sides. The Agile supply chains are
the best choice!

11. References:
a. Hau L. Lee, California Management Review, VOL.44, NO.3,
Spring 2002
b. Google images