In a McKinsey research, the authors examine the enablers and enemies of supply chain agility in five industries. The study also investigated the range of practices that influence supply chain agility. Proprietary data from interviews with operations executives at more than 250 global companies were analyzed to assess ten supply-chain capabilities, including portfolio and complexity, order and demand, forecasting, and risk. Responses were plotted on a scale of one to five and the overall agility scores organized into quartiles. The authors compared those scores with two widely employed measures of supply-chain performance: service levels, as measured by the proportion of orders delivered on time and as promised, and days of inventory held.
The results are as follows:
Source: Raoul Dubeauclard, Kerstin Kubik, Venu Nagali, 2015. How agile is your supply Chain? McKinsey Quarterly, April 2015.