The days of business as usual are gone from Manufacturing. Every day brings a set of complex, new challenges. Technology, competition, and world trade drive the winds of change across our supply chain networks. Corporate success demands that all be flexible. It should come as no surprise that capacity and inventory planning and control lies at the heart of being flexible, yet planners and their peers learn how to be flexible mostly through trial and error. This presentation presents a four part framework for supply chain flexibility as responsive, supply flexible, demand flexible, and adaptive responses to the need for change