How Supply Chain Projects Morph Into Black Holes
Steve R. McVey - March 15, 2002

Introduction

Similar to black holes, supply chain management implementations can grow to vast, unanticipated proportions, enveloping unbudgeted amounts of time, resources, and money. A crucial difference between the two is that supply chain projects can be kept to a manageable size by making careful preparations and setting realistic expectations at the outset. The following real-life examples offer insights that may help prevent your supply chain project from collapsing into oblivion, taking your enterprise with it...