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Investment will continue as companies try to avoid being voted off by their supply chain partners, according to our panel of five experts. Pat Sweet reports.
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Q1. How likely is it that companies will be prepared, or able, to make the investment required in their supply chain systems, given the current economic outlook? What should companies be spending limited funds on?
Q2. Is there an increasing trend towards unbundling services in the supply chain?
Q3. What has been the real impact of the advent of e-commerce channels on supply chain operations?
Q4. Is channel proliferation currently an issue for many companies? Are they now starting to feel the pain that was predicted as they try to handle multiple channels to customers?
Q5. Are companies striving to achieve a strategy of convergence in their supply chain? Is this achievable?
Q6. How close are supply chain execution systems to the goal of global product visibility? Which are the solutions that support this, and what are the problems that organisations encounter?
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Collaborative supply chain systems can be complex, and successful implementation depends as much on tackling cultural issues as it does on choosing the right technology.
Yet while few have made it to the end of the road so far, most agree that it is a route worth travelling.
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