Why companies with better SCM are the big ones?

Filed in archive General on October 31, 2008

I read something about a new research which has been done recently on the level of SCM maturity and advancements in companies: One of the results was that the companies which had better performance were normally bigger in size.

I have come up with some reasons why this is happening. If you know some more, please send your comments:

- The bigger companies were facing the challenge of sourcing from other parts of the world, managing a global value chain and so on some years ago and now know the subject much better.

- Normally bright or experienced people prefer to go to big companies (not always) so they might have more knowledgeable guys in SCM area.

- They have more money to spend on the subject and then break it over their global operation. A company with 5 plants can't make equal investment if it wants to keep the investment per plant ration in SCM area the same as the big ones.

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