6Supply Chain Imperative Leadership

DOI: 10.4324/9781003084044-6

6.1 What You Learn in This Chapter

The content of all chapters in this book are important and relevant to all SC members. This chapter is of special importance, however, as it presents and describes the imperative factors that SCs simply must actively and competently managed if they are to achieve genuine SC excellence.

The chapter starts with ten real-life examples that illustrate the impact that an SC’s business environment can have on the SC’s performance.

Next, the SC imperatives (core or essential factors) that must be addressed to attain genuine SC strategic excellence are identified.

Each of the nine SC imperatives is then defined and described in turn using the content-structure ...

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