Supply chain ‘less critical than IT’
3 April 2012
Supplier management has slipped in importance as a key method of improving business performance, according to a recent survey of senior UK business executives.
Information technology and systems has taken the lead for the first time, and supplier management has fallen to fifth place, from last year’s second.
The twelfth annual survey of trends in industry, by management consultants the Bourton Group, found that business heads rated their company’s current structure, production processes and culture as more influential...