“At a company like Dell, it's a strategic variable. Their strategy is to have the best product at the best price. But in order to have this, the supply chain must be competitive. Everybody [at Dell] is trying to reduce costs, increase flexibility, reduce inventory and get their cash more quickly. All of these drive financial performance.”
Dan Hawthoff
“It all depends on whether [companies] view supply chain as a strategic variable or an execution variable.”
“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”
William Shakespeare
“Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.”
David Hare
“There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.”
Carlton Young
“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”
William Osler
“One man's constant is another man's variable.”
Alan Perlis
