Ten Trends of the Global Supply Chain


Trend 1: globalization has exacerbated the rise to large-scale enterprise organizational restructuring to adapt to the global supply chain organization needs.

Trend two: reduce costs and ensure access to local market pressures, continued to be the driving motivation of accelerated globalization.

Trend 3: While the actions of each of globalization can be reduced an average of 17% of the cost, many companies are still difficult to realize management cost savings.

Trend 4: The main objective of the national focus on globalization in China and India, Eastern Europe has become a preferred outsourcing destination.

Trend 5: Product quality and safety, and supply chain logistics and supply chain security strategy is the expansion of globalization the most important consideration.

Trend 6: Lack of supply chain partners the flexibility and management capacity within the main obstacle to implementation of the strategy of globalization.

Trend 7: Environmental sustainability is the future strategic development of globalization a major consideration, but also increasingly subject to compliance and meet customer demand-driven.

Trend 8: by a higher level of supply chain brought about by the implementation of supply chain maturity changes, presents the development of the supply chain after the lag phase.

Trends 9: 2010, on the further demand for supply chain flexibility over product quality and customer service, supply chain strategy for improving the main drivers.

Trend 10: Chief Operating Officer of cross-sectoral and district work schedule is flexible and tends to supply chain performance improvement.

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