The Leadership Challenge: Keeping Pace with the Skills Needed

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January-February 2013

Supply chain management has a host of rules that most managers live by. But in certain cases, say authors Robert Sabath and Rich Sherman, true innovation comes only when those conventional rules are broken. By clearly understanding the nature of the rules and the details of your supply chain, you can know where and when rule-breaking makes sense.

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Supply chain management (SCM) is an evolving discipline. The art and science of managing a global supply chain has gone through a transformation in response to changes in the way companies operate as well as a more complex and interdependent business environment. Practitioners need to keep abreast of these developments and adopt the appropriate mix of leadership skills.

More specifically, as the profession continues to grow beyond its physical distribution roots, supply chain managers require both broader expertise and deeper technical excellence. How to reconcile these two seemingly opposing demands is one of the most difficult leadership challenges facing SCM today.

By tracing the profession’s evolutionary track and changing profile, we can identify responses to these challenges and prepare practitioners for the leadership demands that lie ahead.

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