The five big challenges that companies face today is

☛ Ignoring the continued growth of e-commerce as a channel in the industrial sector

☛ No attention to the potential risk like volatile transportation costs

☛ Over expectation that supply chain management technologies will fix everything

☛ Over-reliance on past performance to predict future sales

☛ Increase complexity added to supply chain operations with implementation of unnecessary technologies

☛ Lack of understanding of the full capacities of suppliers and service