As an operations leader, you are expected to be on top of what is happening in the field. The contributions you make to your organization must go beyond incremental tweaks. Your company looks to you to bring in new ideas for game-changing improvements. The best ideas are often found by challenging the status quo and looking outside your industry for inspiration. Your senior leadership team likely already knows what your competitors are doing in managing their supply chains, and it's probably not that different from what your organization is doing. In this assignment, you have an opportunity to break free from old routines. You will present a Recommendation Report for an innovative change for your organization that incorporates a current hot trend in supply chain management. It addresses one or more of the 5 Operational Failings in Business. This is your opportunity to think big, challenge assumptions, and ask, "What if...?" Your report should be approached as a "blue sky" pitch to your senior leadership team. The objective is to inspire the team about one exciting new practice being leveraged in supply chain management and to explain how adopting this practice would have a positive impact on your organization. You