Creating the Optimal Supply Chain - Review (Avoiding the Cost of Inefficiency: Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chain Management)

In Part 1 of Creating the Optimal Supply Chain, a report made available publicly by Supply Chain experts from BCG and Wharton, I reviewed the section titled You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure': Maximizing Supply Chain ValueYou Can't Manage What You Can't Measure': Maximizing Supply Chain Value. In this post, I want to review the next section of the report titled - Avoiding the Cost of Inefficiency: Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chain Management.
When I'm having my groceries checked out at Walmart, the clerk almost always asks me the following question in some form or the other:
"Did you find everything you wanted?"
And invariably I answer - "Yes!" whether or not it is true. I can only think of one time when I was searching helter skelter for 1 particular product (a baby boppy pillow) that I told the clerk. And I set a chain of events in motion. The clerk didn't know where I'd find it. So she called up her manager and she led me straight to the product even though I had been searching that exact aisle for a good 10 minutes.

Read the rest of the review here.

Tags: Optimal Supply Chain, BCG, Wharton, Supply Chain Strategy, Supply Chain Collaboration and Coordination, Sustainable Competitive Advantage, Supply Chain complexity, Globalization effects on Supply Chain

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11th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study 2006

As reported previously here, the summarized results of the 11th Annual 3PL study 2006 are now available at the site - www.3plstudy.com. The authors and objectives of the study were:

The 2006 study is produced by C. John Langley Jr., Ph.D., of the Georgia Institute of Technology, with industry experts from Capgemini, DHL, and SAP, and is an extensive study about using 3PL services in North America, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America to examine critical trends and issues among key markets and key customers in the 3PL industry.

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Creating the Optimal Supply Chain - Review (You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure': Maximizing Supply Chain Value)

Earlier last week, I linked to a special report published by experts from BCG and Wharton regarding the topic - Creating the Optimal Supply Chain. I want to get this week off to an early start because I know that this week is crunch time at work.

Read the rest of the review - You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure': Maximizing Supply Chain Value here.

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