Supply Chain Leader

A few months ago, I gave an interview to a logistics journalist from Gestion Logistique Magazine. The interview was published in the June 2009 issue.  Our discussion was about all the facets of supply chain and logistics, new trends, the ways to improve supply chain, etc…

And guess what the journalist kept from our interview?

His whole paper is about how important people management and leadership are to supply chain management, which for me was obvious, but for him, these were new ideas that he wanted to share with his readers…

To summarize this paper in one sentence, behind every supply chain decisions or improvement actions there is human action or decision. And because of this, you need to have a clear people management and leadership function to support supply chain improvement projects and operations: 

·         Executive Leadership for supply chain excellence strategy,

·         People empowerment for supply chain execution,

·         Change management and education for sustainable supply chain improvement, and

·         Alignment of compensation with supply chain objectives.

For more details about this paper, you can visit:    Imed Othmani, Gestion Logistique, Juin 2009.

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