Nearly everyone agrees that a synchronized supply chain requires effective collaboration between trading partners, but when it comes to defining what collaboration actually is and how to accomplish it, opinions are all over the map.

Whether your company is a supplier, manufacturer or retailer, the supply chains you participate in are increasingly interdependent. No single company can succeed unless all supply chain participants operate as one seamless entity.

Supply chain change would be so easy if it weren't for one unavoidable factor: people. How to make sure you've seen the last of the BOHICANS (acronym explained below).