Fig. 1.3.4.1 Performance target areas in supply chains (according to [Hieb01]).
The network-level objectives in Figure 1.3.4.1 aim to enable performance excellence (and are called enablers or enabler objectives). Like company objectives in the target area of flexibility, they are higher-level, or meta-level, objectives that set the direction of what is done; enablers are the approaches that drive the network towards performance. Enablers are ways to achieve the following results or results objectives at the network level: