Some common problems with
implementing logistics strategies
• people who design the strategies are not responsible for
their implementation
• strategies are badly designed, perhaps with the wrong aims
or focus
• it is impossible, or very difficult, to implement them
properly
• they do not take enough account of actual operations,
perhaps because there were not broad enough discussions
• they are over-ambitious, or somehow not realistic
• they ignore key factors, or emphasise the wrong features
• people only pay lip-service to supporting the strategies
• enthusiasm for the strategies declines over time