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Supply management can be a powerful competitive weapon — if the strategy driving that activity is closely and continuously aligned with the business strategy. Yet new research suggests that the necessary alignment is often lacking. This article offers a process for identifying and implementing the supply management strategies that hold the best potential for competitive advantage.
Today, the benefits of sourcing from low cost countries and selling into new foreign markets are driving the vast majority of enterprise-class companies to go global. However, many of these companies are still making due with sub-standard global processes and technologies borrowed from domestic organizations.
In this Webcast, you'll learn what a supply chain control tower entails, the key elements that comprise the control tower and how your supply chain can benefit from the control tower.
In its 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast, which is based on feedback from U.S.-based purchasing and supply chain executives, manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors are expected to leverage the solid levels for various metrics each has been seeing over the last several months.
Ask yourself this: what would your opportunity costs be if your distribution operations could not accommodate changes in volumes, product assortments or delivery timelines?