Why so many lost opportunities?

摘要

I consul for a number of companies, and most of them have established compliance programs that deal with product identification and electronic files for transmitting orders and shipping notices. The benefits of such programs - using bar codes for carton and product identification together with electronic documents - are enormous and well documented. But I must say that the level of true supply chain efficiency that most of those companies have achieved is deplorable. In fact, companies in the most advanced supply channel that I am familiar with are using end-to-end communications and linking electronic files to bar codes on boxes.