One day it’s carrying a rescue sub to Australia. The next it’s moving Indonesians to Lebanon or flying supplies to Tonga. For USTRANSCOM, each day brings a new challenge, and it’s Maj. Gen. Fletcher’s job to figure out how to handle it.
It doesn’t take magic to create an award-winning work environment, says Doug Eckrote of CDW. You just have to keep the lines of communication open and empower your people to make decisions.
Rather than dispense wisdom from on high, consultant Chris Norek prefers to lead clients through the supply chain strategizing process by asking some well-chosen questions. The results speak for themselves.
It's important to understand what really determines the long-term effectiveness of a supply chain, says consultant Tracy Maylett. And it's not the technology or the process.
An estimated 80 to 90 percent of new product launches fail. A new study suggests
that’s partly because businesses overlook the supply chain in their planning.
While media coverage of the outbreak has focused largely on the human toll (and rightly so), there is a supply chain lesson to be learned. And you need not wait for the crisis to abate to act on that lesson.