2. Achieving strategic fit is a company’s
ability to find a balance between
responsiveness and efficiency that
matches the needs of its target
customers.
3. Increasing variety of products
Customers demanding ever more
customized products ….
4. Decreasing product life cycles
Today there are products whose life cycles can be
measured in months ,compared to the old standard
of years.
5. Increasingly demanding customers
Customers are constantly demanding improvements
in delivery lead times, cost and product
performance.
6. Fragmentation of supply chain ownership
Most firms have become less vertically integrated. as
companies have shed noncore functions, they have
been able to take advantage of suppliers &
customer competencies that they themselves did
not have.
7. Globalization
Adds stress to the chain, because facilities within the
chain are farther apart, making coordination much
more difficult.
8. Difficulty in executing new strategies
Once the good strategy is formulated , the execution
of the strategy can be more difficult
9. TO CONCLUDE…
Overcoming these obstacles offers a tremendous
opportunity in terms of untapped improvement with
in supply chain. the increasing impact of obstacles
has led to supply chain management becoming a
major factor in the success or failure of firms.
10. “When obstacles arise,
you change your
direction to reach your
goal;you do not
change your decision
to get there.”
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