Uncertainty in Supply Chains
What new risks in your organisation’s supply chains have been identified? In the past week articles have discussed the potential (new?)...
Planning is a macro view
Planning roles have always being analytical, but there is an increasing emphasis on working with system applications and tools and...
The role of each function
The previous blogpost identified that the Aim of a Supply Chains group is to provide ‘Competitive Availability’ of products and...
Strategy and Tactics
It is assumed by commentators that few businesses have developed a Supply Chains Network strategy. This may be due to the continuing...
Short-term noise
Change happens continuously through our lives, but most is not important and we absorb the changes into what we do. Sometimes a change...
COP28 climate conference
The meeting in Dubai has concluded, and the limited outcomes are unlikely to make a substantial difference to the expected climate...
Supply Chains process gaps
There are occasional articles that discuss misalignment or gaps in organisations’ supply chains, which occur in processes, information flows, and IT...
Customers are necessary in commercial organisations But what is the collective view about customers inside the business? It is driven by the chief executive,...
‘Chain of custody’ for materials The approach when mapping your organisation’s supply chains is to typically start with relationships between your business and its...
Is the current reality just transitory? Forecasting is a worthy activity, because it requires people to think about the future. However, be careful about...
Suitable solutions in Planning Because an organisation’s relationships within its supply chains differ to those of other businesses, it is not advisable to promote...