Anticipates an Australian innovation (not mentioned here) that Nobel's Explosives later considers. This is an abridged version of ICI--Nobel's Explosive Co. (IMD028), which considers the Australian innovation.

Marie-Jeanne Becaus-Pieters was founder and president of the Pan European network of Fish Auctions (PEFA). Created to link fish auctions across Europe, Pefa.com was the first Internet-based market exchange for the remote trading of fresh fish in real time. PEFA's strategy was primarily based on matching northern European supplies of fresh fish with the large demand for fish in southern Europe. In addition, with access to fish supplies, both large and small, in the most remote parts of northern, western, and southern Europe, buyers throughout the region would have a much broader pallet of fish products from which to choose. As of June 1998, Becaus-Pieters recognized that the major challenge lay not in the refinement of the PEFA business model but in making it work. The liquidity and viability of the exchange would depend not only on providing the opportunity of trading online but also on implementing those supply chain management processes essential to ensure the quality and the on-time, in-full delivery of the fish purchased. A 2002 POMS international case writing award winner.

Sunwind A.B. supplies interior trim (floor-lids) to Volvo Car company from its Säve plant. The newly appointed Managing Director is faced with capacity and quality problems on one hand and plant closure on the other. he is convinced that the successful implementation of the just-in-time, sequenced delivery of floor lids directly onto Volvo's 700 series assembly line at its Torslanda plant, only 8 km distant, would guarantee not only the viability of the Säve plant but also provide Sunwind with a sorely needed competitive advantage within Sweden's car trim industry. Participants are asked to develop an action plan for implementing the just-in-time sequence delivery of floor lids to Volvo. This requires the analysis of current operations and making recommendations for change consistent with the just-in-time approach.