ABSTRACT

Integrity, inspiration, and supply chain intelligence-what do they have to do with supply chain leadership? A leader without integrity will not be able to lead a bunch of hungry refugees to a restaurant, much less a supply chain organization. Supply chain integrity is critical to retaining customers and profits. This chapter looks at areas in the supply chain that impact an organization’s supply chain integrity. A leader without integrity may also find that he or she cannot inspire their employees to accomplish the goals of an organization and is of little value to the employees or the company. Part of the leadership definition from Chapter 1 includes providing motivation to employees, a leader that cannot provide inspiration to excel will not be able to provide motivation-he or she may fuel motivation dysfunction, but will not motivate his or her employees.