Business Leaders Seen Focusing Too Much on Economic Bottom, Not on Planning Their Supply Chain for Upswing

Supply chain guru Jim Tompkins sees certain sectors turning up by end of Q2 and predicts that many companies will be caught short without a "Great Comeback Strategy"

May 22, 2009
Tompkins International

Raleigh, NC — May 22, 2009 — Business leaders are focusing too much on the timing of the macro bottom of the "Great Recession" instead of planning for the bottoms that have hit or will hit their companies, says supply chain guru James A. Tompkins.

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