Tag: Supply Chains & Supply Networks

Know your Supply Chains with Supply Markets Analysis

Supply Chain & Logistics March 21, 2022

Disruptions in supply chains Uncertainty in global supply chains provides a fertile ground for price instability, actions taken by countries or suppliers and potential shortages of products that are essential in the world economy. This requires businesses to understand the potential for disruption in their supply chains and to reduce risks before the need to implement emergency action. Current events ... Read More

Build a map to inform your Supply Chains Network Design

Supply Chain & Logistics March 14, 2022

Critical material at Tier 3 supplier in a supply chain

Supply Chain & Logistics March 7, 2022

SNAP applications for a better Supply Chains outcome

Supply Chain & Logistics February 28, 2022

A successful S&OP implementation for your supply chains

Supply Chain & LogisticsFebruary 21, 2022

Managing S&OP A recent blogpost by Lora Cecere at Supply Chain Insights, identified reasons for companies failing to gain benefits from Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). The main challenge is a lack of leadership to manage change in organisational culture. that recognises, plans and measures the business in an environment of flows within a complex, non-linear system. However, it is difficult for ... Read More

Collaboration for planning supply chain operations

Supply Chain & LogisticsFebruary 14, 2022

Planning for disruptions Your successful enterprise cannot be ‘demand driven’ if it is not ‘supply supported’. Although your business is built on serving customers, they cannot click their finger (or keyboard) and everything just happens to satisfy the demand. A few years ago, an approach was promoted as ‘demand driven supply chains’. This implied that the supply chains group (Procurement, ... Read More

The ‘One Plan’ process provides effective Supply Chains

Supply Chain & LogisticsFebruary 7, 2022

One Plan for your Supply Chains The previous blogpost discussed how uncertainty and disruptions in supply chains are likely to be experienced for the foreseeable future. Reacting to events by ‘putting out fires’ looks good as a ‘can do’ attitude to impress others, but is an ineffective and expensive way to operate. As an alternative, your business can build a ... Read More

Questions to consider about Supply Chains in 2022

Supply Chain & LogisticsJanuary 24, 2022

Questions for a government This first blogpost for 2022 will note some changes that could occur, but over a longer horizon, than one year. These are not ‘trends’, but matters for consideration concerning how, if they gain momentum, they may affect your supply chains. For 2022, national governments have limited strategy options. Over the past two years it has become ... Read More

Supply Chains and how they can improve your business

Supply Chain & LogisticsDecember 13, 2021

‘Normal’ is not on the agenda The disruptions to supply chains over the past two years will take at least another twelve months to correct. The rapid increase in cases associated with the latest COVID variant shows that the virus has not finished. And supply chain disruptions influenced by the pandemic could continue; some of them an unexpected surprise. Suppliers ... Read More

Procurement must know about culture in tier 1 suppliers

Supply Chain & LogisticsDecember 6, 2021

Supplier’s assessment of a buyer The past two years have highlighted that disruption to supply chains can come in many forms and may be inter-related. To mitigate the potential for disruptions that may seriously affect your organisation requires a close relationship with tier 1 suppliers. But how well do you know these critical suppliers? Too often, buyers focus on assessing ... Read More

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