Supply chain change, functional roles

TABLE 14.1 Functional Roles in Supply Chain Change... 

Supply chains and operations functions are important for organizations. If you ask anyone in a supply chain or operations role, they will tell you that what they do each day is incredibly vital—and it is. Those in the field understand the importance of their roles and can articulate why, usually from the standpoint of operational performance. They can tell you the rate of defects, fill rates, order accuracy, inventory turns, and many other operational performance measures. After all, this is how their performance is measured. What is often missing from their explanations is how their actions directly affect the financial performance of the organization. Other than describing their key economic role in the organization as cost reduction, there is little more financial depth to the explanation. With the information and discussion provided by this book, we can change this. 

His situation calls to mind the discussion in Section 2.1 about different industry supply chain viewpoints. These begin with lip service, where the supply chain label is placed on an existing department with no real change in the scope of responsibility. Other viewpoints do have expanded roles but tend to focus on either procurement or distribution, functions associated with purchasing, warehouses, and transportation. 

Organizing the change effort functional roles in supply chain transformation... 

Organizing fhe change effort and functional roles in supply chain... 

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