1. Volume : 2
2. Issue : 1
3. Month : 01 (2020)

Research Article

Supply Chain Leadership - What is it? How do I get it? Why do I need it?

Joseph Walden

When the Supply Chain Leadership Institute first started providing seminars on supply chain leadership in 2002, the focus was not on companies that were doing supply chain management well but on leaders of the employees that were working in the supply chain. It is important to keep in mind up front that a leader does not lead an organization but rather the people that make up that organization. Therefore, with that logic, a supply chain leader leads the employees not the supply chain organization. Over time this concept has been adapted to describing supply chain industry companies and not the individuals that lead the employees. The focus of this paper