Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 6th Edition

Reducing logistics lead-time

Because companies have typically not managed well the total flow of materials and information that link the source of supply with the ultimate customer, what we often find is that there is an incredibly rich opportunity for improving the efficiency of that process.

In those companies that do not recognise the importance of managing the supply chain as an integrated system it is usually the case that considerable periods of time are consumed at the interfaces between adjacent stages in the total process and in inefficiently performed procedures.

Because no one department or individual manager has complete visibility of the total logistics process, it is often the case that major opportunities for time reduction across ...