Chapter 20. Extending Excellence Beyond the Supply Chain: Improving the Value Chain by Analyzing Barriers to Profitable Growth

There is a limit to the amount of change that anyone can handle at one time. Individual changes, organizational changes, and more macro or global changes can fill up capacity. By integrating supply chain changes into operational strategy, material flow, and work and information flow, the Supply Chain Excellence process results in fewer but deeper projects that ultimately produce bigger and faster returns, in other words, a manageable amount of change designed to be measurable and meaningful.

That’s why the best part of a project is often the final review, where the design team presents its TO BE design, project list, and ...

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