Global supply chains are increasingly complex, involving many partners in far-flung locations. It is tempting to implement color approval programs with clear divisions between passing and failing judgments as if it were a "black and white" process. However, there are costs associated with such a program, as we have seen in the above discussion. The best strategy is for the color manager to identify which types of wrong color approval decisions are the most costly for the company, and implement a tolerancing strategy that will avoid these errors, while avoiding undue burden for suppliers and mills.
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