does your company resource supply chain correctly or is there always under resource concerns which are not felt outside of that department ?

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Supply chain generally gets the blunt end in resources largely due to it (usually) purely being a cost center. Very hard to tie revenue to supply chain and that does not appeal to the eyes of the C-Suite.

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The latter, no question. I don't know how to solve this problem.

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