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Strategic Supply Chain Comes of Age Post-Pandemic CLAREMONT, CA—The COVID-19 pandemic has proven the critical nature of the strategic supply chain, according to expert supply chain thought leaders within the Society for the Advancement of Consulting® (SAC). Companies realize they can no longer ignore this crucial business function, which belongs firmly in the C-Suite. This includes the thinking, actions, and initiatives that put the supply chain in a strategic context. Inventory Accommodation or Optimization? "As a manufacturer, do you have an inventory accommodation strategy or an inventory optimization strategy?" asks Patrick Daly, Managing Director of Alba Consulting, based in Dublin, Ireland. "In my work with manufacturing clients, I often find that they do not have any explicitly articulated strategy at all." "Frequently, there is no feedback loop between infrastructure provision to accommodate inventory, and setting the policies that determine how much inventory the company holds to support manufact