Sham, Deputy General Manager, India Biggest challenge in supply chain/purchasing is the non-recognition of this team as frontline function and being treated as support function.
Secondly, the unplanned, unscheduled and incomplete information from user funtions often leads to curtlailed timelines and pricing which ties your arms in decision making.
Thirdly, always one programme of management in assinging this function of reducing the cost instead it should be linked to cost efficiency wherein you map the investment vis-a-vis the revenue by way of Cost benefit analysis, or idling time, or first mover advantage which can be reflected in total case study and not by judging the decision making or ordering.
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