Overcoming Barriers in Supply Chain Performance

A supply chain can contain hundreds, even thousands of interconnected components and contributors. To keep them all running smoothly, managers need to see what is going on, what’s most critical, what decisions they need to make, and the impact these decisions will have up and down the extended supply chain.

There are many barriers to building a high-performance supply chain. This paper covers the four most common:

• Lack of visibility due to data silos
• Lack of predictability and inability to identify changes to get processes back on track
• Incomplete information due to incompatible or incomplete reporting systems
• Optimization at the local level.

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