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Automotive Assembly EXTRANET Segment and succeed You need to deliver higher service levels at lower cost. Smart segmentation techniques could be the answer. By Cédric Losdat and Dennis Minnich Across sectors from automotive and aerospace to pharmaceuticals and consumer goods, companies are finding that treating all customers, products and markets with the same manufacturing and supply chain processes is both inefficient and ineffective. Now an increasing number of companies recognize that if they take a segmented approach to supply chain design, they can build in flexibility and boost service for those products and markets that need it, while minimizing overall costs. In a recent study of supply chain practices and performance at more than 60 companies, we found companies employing best- in-class segmentation strategies were two and a half times as likely to be leaders in inventory performance and twice as likely to be leaders in service as those with little or no segmentation in place. Many business leaders we speak to find the prospect of designing and implementing a segmented supply chain quite daunting. In practice, the process can be straightforward. One mid-sized European manufacturing company recently undertook such an initiative and successfully segmented its supply chain using a three-step approach: 1. it uncovered underlying drivers of operational complexity throughout the supply chain, from customers back to suppliers 2. it designed dif