{"id":116,"date":"2006-10-18T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/supply-chain-management\/creating-the-optimal-supply-chain-review-avoiding-the-cost-of-inefficiency-coordination-and-collaboration-in-supply-chain-management\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:34:18","slug":"creating-the-optimal-supply-chain-review-avoiding-the-cost-of-inefficiency-coordination-and-collaboration-in-supply-chain-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/supply-chain-management\/creating-the-optimal-supply-chain-review-avoiding-the-cost-of-inefficiency-coordination-and-collaboration-in-supply-chain-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the Optimal Supply Chain &#8211; Review (Avoiding the Cost of Inefficiency: Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chain Management)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 1 of <a title=\"Creating the Optimal Supply Chain\" href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/papers\/download\/BCGSupplyChainReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Creating the Optimal Supply Chain<\/a>, a report made available publicly by Supply Chain experts from BCG and Wharton, I reviewed the section titled <strong><a title=\"You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure': Maximizing Supply Chain Value\" href=\"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/16\/supply-chain-management\/creating-the-optimal-supply-chain-review-you-cant-manage-what-you-cant-measure-maximizing-supply-chain-value\/\" target=\"_blank\">You Can&#8217;t Manage What You Can&#8217;t Measure&#8217;: Maximizing Supply Chain ValueYou Can&#8217;t Manage What You Can&#8217;t Measure&#8217;: Maximizing Supply Chain Value<\/a><\/strong>. In this post, I want to review the next section of the report titled &#8211; <strong>Avoiding the Cost of Inefficiency: Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chain Management<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m having my groceries checked out at Walmart, the clerk almost always asks me the following question in some form or the other:<br \/>\n&#8220;Did you find everything you wanted?&#8221; <!--adsense--><br \/>\nAnd invariably I answer &#8211; &#8220;Yes!&#8221; whether or not it is true. I can only think of one time when I was searching helter skelter for 1 particular product (a baby boppy pillow) that I told the clerk. And I set a chain of events in motion. The clerk didn&#8217;t know where I&#8217;d find it. So she called up her manager and she led me straight to the product even though I had been searching that exact aisle for a good 10 minutes.<br \/>\nOfcourse, there&#8217;s no such thing at Walmart.com and that I consider a slip up. Amazon.com addresses this question in a different way by serving up recommendations that my buying\/searching profile conjures up in their algorithmic search technique on their page but coming to think of it whether it is 1-click checkout or a haphazard checkout online, none of these retailers bother to ask me this question.<br \/>\nIn this section of the report, the authors contend that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the process of getting the right product to the right place at the right time at the right price <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 1 of Creating the Optimal Supply Chain, a report made available publicly by Supply Chain experts from BCG and Wharton, I reviewed the section titled You Can&#8217;t Manage What You Can&#8217;t Measure&#8217;: Maximizing Supply Chain ValueYou Can&#8217;t Manage What You Can&#8217;t Measure&#8217;: Maximizing Supply Chain Value. In this post, I want to review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supply-chain-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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