What are the major obstacles to successfully implementing supply chain management?

Major barriers to the implementation of supply chain management are:

• Lack of senior management commitment,
• Lack of understanding the concept of supply chain management,
• Having an inadequate organizational structure to support the supply chain management system,
• Low commitment of partners.
• Lack of information technology
• Infrastructure and resistance of the suppliers to change, short-term and price-oriented approaches, lack of top management support
• Production being project-based and large in volume, widely spread contentious relationships in the industry and difficulties in accessing the resources.