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DDSC works best when ‘measurements’ are changed accordingly.
I have seen many implementations of replenishment based supply chains where the improvements are only marginal. When we dive deeper, the reason is often that the earlier measurements (designed for forecast driven supply chains) continue to operate.
For example, supply chain teams continue to measure monthly forecast accuracy, sales vs forecast, supplies vs forecast, etc. These measurements are no longer important. What we should instead be measuring is product availability, product freshness, OTIF as a measure of customer service.
Improvements should be done in terms of faster delivery, flexibility in production and purchase, and time to respond to changes in plans.
If we don’t change the measurements in line with the supply chain design, major performance improvements will continue to elude us.