“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement.” – H. James Harrington, CEO of the Harrington Institute.
Across the years, companies have traditionally and exclusively measured their success in terms of financial achievements. In the rapidly emerging business world it appeared the need for a much broader range of measures, in order to keep companies and organizations on track into achieving their goals. This is how the fulminating interest in dashboards, scorecards and KPIs can be explained, and Procurement and Supply Management is no different.
In addition to focusing on generating the best ideas through research and analysis, marketers need to also focus on the process of deploying these ideas into the market, making sure they reach the consumer in a timely and effective manner. To describe this process, the term employed is the Marketing Supply Chain, which consists of the people, processes and technology that make possible the creation and delivery of the marketing artifacts to the target consumers.
Improving logistics performance has become an important development policy objective in recent years because logistics have a major impact on economic activity.
