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Supply chain management involves making choices and trade-offs that help you maximize your profits over the long term. When you get right down to it, conflicts occur between any two functions in a business, as well as between any two businesses that work together as a part of a supply chain. Six conflicts, or trade-offs, are so common that every supply chain management professional needs to understand them and know how to manage them effectively (see Table 3-2). I discuss these trade-offs separately in the following sections.