Are You Asking the Right Supply Chain Management (SCM) Questions?
Discover the hidden risks, inefficiencies, and blind spots affecting your supply chain performance and decision-making.
Frequently Ignored Questions (FIQs)
1
How many handoffs happen in your supply chain between a purchase order and a delivered shipment - and how many of them are invisible to you right now?
2
Is it possible for your organisation to have excess stock and stockouts at the
same time — and if so, do you know where right now?
3
What percentage of your procurement spend last quarter would your team describe as fully visible, fully compliant, and fully within contract — and how do you know?
4
Which of your
suppliers is most likely to cause you a
problem in the next 90 days — and what’s
that assessment based on?
5
When a customer calls about a late shipment, how long does it take your team to find out exactly what happened - and at which point in the process it went wrong?
6
If throughput in your warehouse dropped 15% next week, how long would it take your team to identify where in the operation the bottleneck formed?
7
What percentage of your production output last month was lost to scrap or rework — and do you know which line, shift, or material caused the most of it?
8
How confident are
you that every production order running in your facility right now is based on the most current approved version of the item?
9
When your gross
margin moves, do you know — within 48 hours — which cost layer in the supply chain caused it?
10
If a major customer or investor asked to audit the data behind your supply chain ESG disclosures next month, how ready would your team be — and how would you feel about what they’d find?
11
If the same quality defect has appeared more than once in your supply chain — from a supplier, in production, or in customer returns — do you know about the pattern, or just the individual incidents?
12
The last time a
critical piece of equipment went down unexpectedly — was the data that predicted it already in your system?
