1Introduction to Supply Chain Leadership

DOI: 10.4324/9781003084044-1

1.1 What You Will Learn in This Chapter

This chapter starts with an overview of supply chain leadership (SCL) and the identification of eight socio-technical factors that supply chain (SC) leaders need to be aware of, competent in, and able to apply in order to achieve SCL excellence.

Next, the details of the eight main socio-technical factors are presented and described.

The relationships that exist between SCL, SC process excellence, SC performance excellence, and SC competitive advantage are then illustrated in graphic form.

An SCL framework is then presented illustrating how such an approach can be used to define necessary sub-factor content and performance metrics for ...

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