Supply Chain Responsiveness Hampered by Resistance to Change

SupplyChainBrain (7/27) – "One of the biggest surprises in these results is that respondents said the top barrier to improving responsiveness is their own culture,” says Tim Vaio, leader of the industrial products group for Hitachi Consulting, the IT and consulting company of Hitachi Ltd. “We believe this indicates that most performance measures are inhibiting change by rewarding siloed behavior. To become responsive companies need to take a holistic approach across all supply chain functions and develop processes and metrics that reward end-to-end supply chain success.”