Stratabridge - Helping companies bridge the gap between strategy and operations

Collaboration with external trading partners is becoming a critical aspect of managing the supply chain, as the search for internal efficiencies shows diminishing returns. The extent of collaboration that is appropriate for any particular relationship will vary, therefore, an essential pre-requisite before engaging customers and suppliers in a conversation about collaboration, is for a business to be clear about the key attributes of a successful relationship.

Building on our model of Values & Behaviours, Processes and Resources, the StrataBridge approach allows the trading partners to choose and agree upon the appropriate level of collaboration, within each dimension, for their relationship. Our experience shows that the success of a collaborative relationship depends more upon the alignment of the Values and Behaviours between trading partners than upon the harmonisation of processes, transactions and systems.