Business leaders seeking to gain competitive advantage are honing strategic vision to reach their company’s desired future state and expansion goals. Even though organizations may develop a blueprint for growth, the larger challenge is to execute against that vision to achieve long-term value creation. With commodity costs up and competition increasing, many companies say they have done all they know to do. Their operations run as well as can be expected, but it is still a challenge to hit their numbers.
So how do North American HVAC distributors expand into their desired future state and increase economic profit? Executives increasingly are recognizing that supply chain optimization is the answer. Research shows supply chain excellence helps improve the overall financial health of an organization.