The vast majority of supply chain professionals agree that one of the biggest barriers to successful collaboration
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- The vast majority of supply chain professionals agree that one of the biggest barriers to successful collaboration is a slow issue resolution process. This has been identified as a systemic problem related to quality of information flow, in terms of both the granularity (level of detail) and timeliness of data shared. In addition, almost all supply chain professionals agree that rapid problem resolution is part of good collaboration. True collaboration can be defined in terms of speed, both in problem-solving and in organizational learning. Many also indicate that speed of response in truly collaborative relationships is twice as fast or faster, with learning curve improvements more than 50% greater than in noncollaborative trading partner relationships.
- Discuss why supply chain partners may not be able to resolve issues quickly. Consider information flows in your discussion.
- What impacts might slow problem (issue) resolution have on the supply chain?
- Based on your answer to (a), discuss which enterprise systems could speed up problem resolution.
- What is meant by learning curve improvements?
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Materials and process in manufacturing
ISBN: 978-0471656531
9th edition
Authors: E. Paul DeGarmo, J T. Black, Ronald A. Kohser
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