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STRATEGY SOLUTIONS INTERSECTIONS CULTURE ALLIANCES PROCESS PERFORMANCE Cisco’s eHub Initiative By Franklin Grosvenor and Terrence A. Austin At Cisco Systems, the latest supply chain innovation is eHub. It’s a private trading e-marketplace that provides a central point for planning and exe- cuting tasks across the company’s extended manufacturing supply chain. eHub promises to deliver a host of benefits—end-to-end visibility, event alerting, and cost and inventory reductions among them. Ultimately, eHub will embrace more than 2,000 of Cisco’s supply chain partners. In today’s volatile marketplace, the tendency is to stop investing and adopt a wait-and-see attitude. That strategy can be deadly. When the economic sky is falling, there seem to be three choices: A. Stop everything. B. Continue on because this, too, shall pass. C. Cut costs strategically, but invest for the future. Cisco Systems Inc. has chosen option C. Like everyone else in today’s economy, the company is grappling with a volatile marketplace. But having tasted the sweet victories of harnessing Internet technologies, Cisco’s leadership team is committed to maintaining momentum. And manufacturing supply chain innovation is considered a strategic investment for future growth. As a company, Cisco not only provides solutions that make the Internet economy possible, but also pursues its vision of what the successful organization of the 21st century will look like.