2.1. Strategic supply chain management
The traditional view of supply chain management is
that it is mainly a process for obtaining and moving
goods and services. According to this view, supply
chains are tactical and transactional in nature, and
are a cost center rather than a revenue driver. Not
surprisingly, many firms focus on individual operational
metrics such as dock-to-stock time and
manufacturing lead time to assess their chains.
Indeed, most organizations do not track or have a
method of recording total supply chain performance.