No enterprise is an island. Goods and services flow in from suppliers. Processes, knowledge and expertise are applied to create value-added offerings that are sold to customers who add further value to create other goods and services that are, in turn, sold to other customers and so on through to the final consumer. When you include suppliers of wares for raw material extractors, along with recyclers that turn consumer and commercial waste into new raw materials and finished goods, it is a supply chain with no beginning and no end.

Companies work hard to optimize internal efficiencies, but that does not address the entire cost structure. The supply chain also imposes considerable expenses. Historically, these costs were largely accepted as being beyond the enterprise's control. That is changing. Increasingly, businesses, governments and not-for-profit organizations realize that a seamless and efficient supply chain is a critical success factor.

Achieving the Perfect Order, a white paper written by Joel Klebanoff, examines the issues of supply chain communication with an emphasis on a common paradigm, "the perfect order." Complete the form below to download the white paper and improve your supply chain communications!