I’m thrilled that more supply chain leaders are now “movin’ on up” in their companies.
As we found in our recent Supply Chain Consortium survey on Supply Chain Organization, nearly half the retail and manufacturing companies surveyed have a supply chain leader at or above the executive vice president level. This is a positive trend!
Interestingly enough, about the same time we put out our survey results, IndustryWeek also ran a blog about a similar survey conducted by Cranfield School of Management and Solving Efeso, which found that about two-thirds of the 180-plus senior global supply chain professionals polled have senior supply chain representation in the boardroom.
I’m glad to see that supply chain is more firmly on the radar for a large number of organizations and is becoming more closely aligned with their business strategies. And these findings support the reality of business today – It is supply chain vs. supply chain, and those with the strongest supply chains will come out on top.
If you’d like to learn more about the findings of our survey and discover what’s going on in your industry, check out the Executive Briefing, The Structure of Today's Supply Chain Organizations: Charting How Companies Organize Their Supply Chains.
Go!Go!Go!
Jim