write in other words this post : At the operational level, we identify a set of three tailored business activities that provide significant competitive advantage to the Victoria's Secret supply chain and place Victoria's Secret in a unique position in comparison to its competitors. These activities are aligned to the overarching strategy, which is to deliver an assortment of innovative fashion products and less risky basic products. The first tailored activity emanates from the company-wide open innovation model. The decentralized design culture within Victoria's Secret and inter-company operating ties add unique capabilities to its supply chain design, enabling several pathways for product innovation. The second tailored activity has to do with the sourcing model that Limited Brands has adopted as a whole. The presence of Mast Industries as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Limited Brands is of tremendous value to the company. Mast carefully selects its vendors based on capabilities to manufacture and deliver fashion versus basic products. Mast works with a set of vertically integrated factories as well as raw material suppliers to create a product that is hard to replicate. For example, in the case of the IPEX product development, Mast worked with raw material suppliers who were experts