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supply-chain 101
By Miles Cook Only 33% Correctly Measure Supply-Chain
Performance; Few Use The Right Incentives
More than 85% of senior executives say improving their firms’
supply-chain performance is one of their top priorities, but fewer than
10% are adequately tracking that performance. And fewer still—7%—
collect the information necessary to meaningfully measure their progress.
Those are key findings from a new survey by Bain & Company.
The study,which polled 162 top managers with supply-chain oversight,
also finds that the supply-chain gap is set to widen: two-thirds of
companies that say they are already ahead rate improvement of supply-
chain performance as a “high” or “top” priority; but just over a third
of laggards say they will prioritize catching up.
The consequence is a growing performance gap between average firms
and the panies such as Wal-Mart, Dell, and Toyota that
meticulously analyze everything from customer forecasts to product
pricing to warehouse inventory turns. Already, the top performers are
twice as efficient as the average. Independent research shows they put
about four percent of revenues into their supply chains, while average
players allocate almost 10%. (See Figure 1)
Figure 1
Average players are half
as efficient as the stars... ...such as puter
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10% 35
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