Supply Chain Cost Management: The AIM & DRIVE® Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results

Determining Team Goals

Just as it’s vital that your team be composed of the right people from the right departments—with the right attitude—it’s important that the team have the right goals and the right focus.

It is always tempting to focus on monetary goals in a cost management strategy session. After all, that is what management wants to see, isn’t it? Real cost savings. While that is no doubt true, the fact that the team has been expanded to include subject matter experts from different functional areas, including suppliers where necessary, forces you—fortunately—to consider their perspectives as well. Think about how you would feel if you were a marketing manager and were in a meeting where the goal of increasing market share was not even ...