In today’s difficult business environment, where corporations are constantly searching for improvement opportunities, leading firms need to focus on two key areas: looking for business allies in their supply chains and aggressively probing internally for ways to reduce supply chain costs.

While their short-term focus requires an emphasis on internal cost reduction, the expected economic up-turn demands that corporations maintain their long-term external focus on collaboration across the end-to-end value chain network. Helping firms keep both of these issues in perspective and striking a balance between them is the focus of the supply chain solutions (SCS) practice of hanodale.