Why Do We Still Have The Seven Timeless Challenges of Supply Chain Management? at Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, and Supply Chain Management

Why Do We Still Have The Seven Timeless Challenges of Supply Chain Management?

Share This on Linked In A recent article in Supply Chain Digest listed the seven timeless challenges of supply chain management, as described by Dr. J. Paul Dittmann, the Director of the Office of Corporate Partnership at the University of Tennessee. While I have to agree that these challenges are "timeless" in that we (needlessly) see them again and again and again, I don't understand why ... since all of them are solveable with today's technology. More specifically: Too Much Product Complexity Most companies have too many SKUs, and, ...

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