Sun Zi’s Philosophy 3: Chapter 11 (The Nine Battlegrounds)
“On serious ground, a general must ensure a continuous supply of food and provisions.” – Line 11.89 According to Sun Zi Art of War, a great general must ensure the supply of food to their soldiers should not be delay. He should ensure that the food supply should be continuous. Otherwise all the soldiers will be hungry. Without some meal to refill their energy, the soldiers will have no energy to continue fighting with their general. Their man power will be dramatically reduce. They will start to moving very slow. The percentage to win a war will be reduced as well.
For business, the supply of food means supply chain. A business should be concern about their effectiveness on aspect of supply chain. The directors and managers of a company must make sure their product delivery to the customer house door just in time. Any delay will be …show more content…
The strategy that used from Sun Zi is the person who gains victories by adapting to the changing conditions and situations of the enemy can be considered a legend in warfare. We need to keep changing to follow the trend in order to continue compete in the market. Sun Zi also had told us that a general’s greatest responsibility is to study and examine their characteristics thoroughly. We have to make sure the customer loyalty because it is our responsibility. From Sun Zi, we also learned that on serious ground, a general must ensure a continuous supply of food and provisions. A punctual timing is very important for a company toward a customer trustworthy. Other than that, this is applying the principle of using strengths to strike weaknesses. We have discovered the strength and weaknesses of Mars Company. Thus, We should use the strength to minimize the weaknesses. As a result, it can be seen that Sun Zi Art of War is important and can be adopted in every business
“On serious ground, a general must ensure a continuous supply of food and provisions.” – Line 11.89 According to Sun Zi Art of War, a great general must ensure the supply of food to their soldiers should not be delay. He should ensure that the food supply should be continuous. Otherwise all the soldiers will be hungry. Without some meal to refill their energy, the soldiers will have no energy to continue fighting with their general. Their man power will be dramatically reduce. They will start to moving very slow. The percentage to win a war will be reduced as well.
For business, the supply of food means supply chain. A business should be concern about their effectiveness on aspect of supply chain. The directors and managers of a company must make sure their product delivery to the customer house door just in time. Any delay will be …show more content…
The strategy that used from Sun Zi is the person who gains victories by adapting to the changing conditions and situations of the enemy can be considered a legend in warfare. We need to keep changing to follow the trend in order to continue compete in the market. Sun Zi also had told us that a general’s greatest responsibility is to study and examine their characteristics thoroughly. We have to make sure the customer loyalty because it is our responsibility. From Sun Zi, we also learned that on serious ground, a general must ensure a continuous supply of food and provisions. A punctual timing is very important for a company toward a customer trustworthy. Other than that, this is applying the principle of using strengths to strike weaknesses. We have discovered the strength and weaknesses of Mars Company. Thus, We should use the strength to minimize the weaknesses. As a result, it can be seen that Sun Zi Art of War is important and can be adopted in every business