Attaining strategic fit is aligning your competitive strategy and your ability across your supply chains to meet customer segment needs. This is an area seldom considered critical in the structure of supply chains. 

Undertanding the needs of your targeted customer segments, together with their implied demand and supply uncertainty levels, brings more clarity around expectations. An honest assessment of whether your current supply chain is suitably structured to support these segment needs is then performed. 

Within this assessment one needs to be willing and able to provide the levels of responsiveness demanded by your customer base and this leads to ensuring your pull/push boundaries are well structured and managed.

What about your teams? Do your teams have the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to perform their roles, and are they fully utilised? Don’t think goals can be easily achieved without clearly defining the route to success.

This is when the 6 elements of Business Transformations, depicted on the home page, need to be reviewed.