Supply Chain Leadership Articles

The emerging expectations of a successful supply chain executive have grown to include leadership competencies in a number of critical areas. 

 We have all been challenged in our careers with a situation that could only be resolved by providing a proper perspective of the issue before leading a team to define and execute actions to address it.  

 All supply chain transformation leaders will be challenged with a basic fact. No one executive has the direct authority to align the end-to-end supply chain.  

An important responsibility of the Supply Chain Transformation Leader is to provide the organization with an approach to transformation.  

The purpose of Enterprise Intelligence is to support better decision-making by the executive leadership team. 

Transformation Leaders are expected to successfully engage individuals and entire organizations in their efforts to deliver transformation and significant performance improvement.  

 Transformation Leaders must be capable of driving the organization to exhibit high performance behaviors that evolve into a sustainable high performance culture. 

One of the most highly valued Transformation Leadership skills is the ability to successfully organize and facilitate large cross-functional collaborative teams to develop consensus and take action to deliver performance improvement. 

One of the great challenges for a Transformation Leader is the execution of projects that deliver rapid and sustained performance improvement. 

Transformation Leaders will be challenged to identify and capture opportunities in the end-to-end supply chain, and some of the largest opportunities are in collaborating with customers or supplier

Transformation Leaders will be challenged to develop executive team capabilities for proactive and intuitive leadership of an end-to-end supply chain, and deliver balanced collaborative leadership team decisions with accelerated results.