One main goal of pursuing a digital supply chain transformation is:

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Purpose of digital supply chain transformation

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Easy

Key idea: Digital transformation aims to create lasting competitive advantage by integrating capabilities across people, process and technology, not to optimize one metric or channel.

How to reach the answer

1. The words 'main goal' point to a strategic purpose, not an operational result.
2. Options A, C and D each narrow the goal to one metric, to technology integration, or to one sales channel.
3. Transformation is about strategy-driven, integrated capabilities that competitors find hard to copy.
4. B is the only option framed at that strategic level.

Each option

• AIncorrect. Perfect order performance may improve as a result, but it is one outcome metric, not the purpose of transformation.
• BCorrect. Sustainable competitive advantage built on integrated capabilities is the strategic aim of digital transformation.
• CIncorrect. Integrating tools for efficiency treats transformation as a technology project and misses the strategic and organizational intent.
• DIncorrect. Maximizing a single channel is too narrow and can conflict with omnichannel strategy.

Common trap: Option C sounds like a digital initiative, which leads candidates to confuse technology integration with transformation.

In practice: Executives sponsoring a digital program judge it on whether it strengthens a differentiating capability, such as responsiveness or customization, not on how many systems were connected.

Remember: Transformation is about durable advantage through integrated capabilities, and technology is only the means.

Drafted with AI assistance and checked against the answer key.