| | The Big Payoff - COVER STORY: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - Side Bar - CIO Magazine Oct. 1, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | That is, until he met the head of supply chain and procurement. |
 | | The downside, of course, is that supply chain management promises all the difficulties, complexity, deep process, people dislocation and political monkey business that have made other IT mountains like ERP so difficult to climb. |
 | | CIOs will have to work hard to maintain the business' patience and respect during this new era of electronic supply chain integration if they want to avoid becoming buried even deeper in the functional heap than their supply chain colleagues have been. |
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