Preface

What should any company expect from the chief supply chain officer (or equivalent within the organizational structure)?

• Enabling sales volume growth

• Enabling market-share growth

• Reducing revenue cycle

• Reducing lost sales

• Supporting marketing and sales initiatives

• Enabling customer experience by improving customer’s perception

• Managing the cost to serve

• Offering differentiated service packages

• Enabling margin growth

• Reducing cost of sales

• Balancing asset management

• Balancing service level and cost structure

Despite all barriers involved, delivering products/services on time has not been considered a differentiation attribute for many years. The perfect order fulfillment enables customer satisfaction, but yet, it ...

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