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The search for excellence.(IN THIS iSSUE)
Supply Chain Management Review, April, 2006 by Quinn, Frank
The search for supply chain excellence contains so many interesting facets. There's strategic excellence in aligning your supply chain strategy with the key business goals. There's operational excellence in how well you implement the processes and technologies needed to support your strategy. Then there's tactical excellence in how well you execute against the strategy, the blocking and tackling if you will.
The articles in this April issue speak to those different aspects of excellence in persuasive ways. Larry Lapide of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describes those characteristics of excellence that companies will need to succeed going forward. The MIT Supply Chain 2020 project that Lapide directs identifies those traits as a set of...
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