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Okay, so manufacturers know they need to transition their supply chains from a forecast driven to a demand-driven model, so they can manage performance from one end to the other. Now the question is, just how do they do that?

The answer lies in managed services, a term that generally means services that are 1) necessary to the day-to-day operations involved in running a business community and 2) outsourced. Yet more and more manufacturers are taking an innovative approach to managed services, one that tailors the concept to higher levels of their business communities and thereby delivers higher value. Such an approach is based on best practices.

Best Practices Move Managed Services Higher

Expanded Outsourcing Delivers More Value, More Opportunities
To get the visibility and tools they need to enhance supply-chain performance, manufacturers are starting to apply managed services in a step-by-step fashion, according to the B2B "maturity" level of the business community. In other words, they first outsource their basic requirements and then, building on that managed services foundation as the business community gets bigger and more complex, they outsource more advanced requirements as well.