Common Pitfalls for Demand-Driven Supply Chains

Best-in-class companies are investing both time and capital to measure and optimize their process as they work toward developing Demand-Driven Supply Chains (DDSC).  The successful ones will avoid the most common pitfalls as they journey down this path.  These pitfalls include:

1. The perception that DDSC is purely an IT project
2. A confidence in forecasts provides a DDSC
3. Believing that lean manufacturing is equivalent to DDSC
4. Not fully utilizing the collection of customer and point of sale data
5. Viewing the forecast as a demand visibility indicator

Striving continuously for innovations such as DDSC help improve how supply chains enable business to grow profitably, but these pitfalls must be avoided.