Supply Chain Management and Business Performance

<p>Against this current trend of low growth and high uncertainty, business directors must work with their shareholders to set strategic objectives and define business models.</p> <p>The great number of possible strategies makes this type of management very complex, and the actual deployment of strategic choices is often limited by a lack of overall coherence within the organization. </p> <p>This problem calls for an appropriate and renewed response. In strategic management today, a closer, permanent dialogue is needed between operational and financial performance.</p> <p>Based on a supply chain approach, the Value Added Supply Chain (VASC) model focuses on driving operational performance, but aims to achieve a greater and more dynamic integration between these two dimensions of the company’s value creation.</p>