4. Developing the collective performance of supply chains

Generally speaking, the supply chain concept reflects the fact that a company is not an isolated system, and that it has suppliers and customers to whom it must pay attention because they can affect its own logistics performance.

However, the same reasoning can also be applied to the scale of a supply chain: such a system is indeed interwoven with other supply chains, with which it shares resources and means. This raises the question of the collective performance of supply chains, which is the subject of this final section.