This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
The German government kicked off the initiative with a focus on advanced manufacturing, but businesses are also linking Industrie 4.0 to supplychains. The clearest impact on supplychainplanning involves demand. as the cyber/physical model of digitized manufacturing is more adept at customizing goods.
Last month JDA teamed up with IndustryWeek and Altera Corporation to present a Webcast on the topic of supplychainsegmentation titled: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Altera’s SupplyChainSegmentation Journey to Profitable Growth. Just like our customers.
Will the supplychain ever catch a break? With every link of the supplychain impacting businesses both large and small, keeping up with the globally disrupted supplychain evolution is a recipe for whiplash. Raw Material Shortages Are Affecting a Challenged SupplyChain.
As the demands on supplychains continue to increase, so do the expectations of consumers. Supplychains are particularly affected by these changes, as well as other external influences that threaten to disrupt their daily operations, such as: extreme weather conditions, supply shortages, global health issues, and economic crises.
Yet a century later, a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to supplychain has persisted well beyond its apparent sell-by date. For example, a survey of 100 organizations found that only 8% of manufacturers had achieved an advanced segmentation capability. What is supplychainsegmentation?
Now, imagine if Sara’s applied the same supplychain strategy to both of these types of customers and channels. As you might expect, it would lead to numerous inefficiencies, jeopardize profits, and in a worst-case scenario, could even result in the business shutting down due to a completely collapsed supplychain.
This thing called research in the supplychain market has many arms and legs. I struggle to find a good supplychain academic journal, and often speak to my academic network about the need for one. I believe it is critical for the tactical planning horizon. Bimodal SupplyChains Are a Viable Strategy.
In business conversations, the term supplychain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supplychain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the SupplyChains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supplychain excellence.
by Dr. Madhav Durbha As supplychain professionals, we can grow insular in our thinking, as on a day-to-day basis we risk confining ourselves narrowly to our domain of responsibility or solving challenges specific to our regions. The 2017 SupplyChain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo was one such opportunity.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has created profound uncertainty, and catapulted the vulnerabilities of interconnected supplychains front and center. Supplychain managers who are experiencing supply risks, demand uncertainty, and “wait and see” leadership directives are asking: What should I do now?
Food and consumer goods manufacturers along with their retail counterparts are dealing with unprecedented highs across consumer channels, while “non-essential” companies are being plagued with historical lows. In both cases, planning for the future has become increasingly difficult.
The world has changed so dramatically that EY analysts Matthew Burton and Joost Vreeswijk assert global supplychains need to undergo a great reset.[1] 1] According to Burton and Vreeswijk, there are five elements that must be considered during this great supplychain reset. They write, “Think in expected values.
In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 SupplyChain Predictions for 2012. Supplychain risk will not go away. At the start of 2011, I wrote a blog (SupplyChain Risk and Charles Darwin) that highlighted 2010 as the worst on record for supplychain disruptions.
The Aberdeen SupplyChain Summit in Chicago earlier this month was a productive event for supplychain executives and practitioners. I also had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable session on supplychainsegmentation along with Bob Heaney , Aberdeen’s lead analyst for SupplyChain Management.
Mark Hersh (shown here) is now a Director of SupplyChain Strategy at Clorox while Dave retired in 2018. Mark and Dave, both career Clorox employees, drove a program to customize the supplychain response using Value ChainSegmentation. Designing a Fit For Purpose SupplyChain. Reflections.
ADVA Optical Networking, a Meiningen based manufacturer of telecommunication equipment focusing on fiber-optic transmission technology, is the winner of the SupplyChain Management Award 2013. ADVA Optical Networking is being honored for the end-to-end supplychain solution with which it has secured strategic advantages.
In each issue we aim to cover a cross-section of topics that span regions, industry verticals and business functions with a goal of introducing strategies and best practices that resonate with a broad cross-section of supplychain practitioners.
The beauty of the supplychain is all around us. I guess I’m a supplychain junkie…can’t get enough of it. So rather than write another one, I thought it would be interesting to look at this omni-channel world in a daily life setting, but viewed from a supplychain junkie’s perspective.
Perhaps the most overworked word in the supplychain management lexicon is “visibility.” Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supplychain. It’s also important to have the capability to track shipments anywhere along the supplychain, and receive alerts on potential delays.
At the same time, tire manufacturers have suffered from extreme volatility, raw material shortages with rapidly rising prices, a shortage of global transport capacity and increased costs caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and additional disruptive forces. However, this isn’t the end of the industry’s concerns.
In Part I of my SupplyChain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing SupplyChains remain a great starting point to build your supplychain strategy. This post will explore the three capabilities essential to supplychain redesign. Frequent product portfolio changes.
Now, imagine if Sara’s applied the same supplychain strategy to both of these types of customers and channels. As you might expect, it would lead to numerous inefficiencies, jeopardize profits, and in a worst-case scenario, could even result in the business shutting down due to a completely collapsed supplychain.
In anticipation of his presentation at JDA’s Innovation Forum in Chicago on September 10, SupplyChain Nation sat down with Rick Blasgen, president and CEO of CSCMP, as part of our Expert Insight series to get a preview of his presentation on the State of SupplyChain Management. and other parts of the world?
As 2016 draws to a close, it’s clear that the next 12 months are set to be extremely disruptive for the manufacturing industry. Considering that the industry has largely concentrated on becoming cost-effective rather than lean, this means manufacturers must be prepared for change. The supplychain of the future.
The last 15 years have been a rollercoaster for supplychain professionals as companies embraced supplychain innovation, moving up the five steps of the supplychain maturity curve, supported by new technologies. Figure 1: A fresh look at the Five Tenets of High-Performing SupplyChains.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive recently announced its annual list of the best 100 supplychain transformations and projects that deliver bottom-line value to small, medium and large enterprises across a wide range of supplychain functions. Highlights from SanDisk’s supplychain transformation.
Building a High-Performing and Profitable SupplyChain. In Part I of my SupplyChain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing SupplyChains remain a great starting point to build your supplychain strategy. Figure 4 – Maturity Model for Customer-Centric SupplyChains.
In anticipation of his presentation at JDA’s Innovation Day in Chicago on September 10, SupplyChain Nation sat down with Rick Blasgen, President and CEO of CSCMP, as part of our Expert Insight series to get a preview of his presentation on the State of SupplyChain Management. We still need that information.
My hand was enjoying the warmth from the porcelain coffee cup and I was loving the solitude when a supplychain leader approached me with a cup of tea in his hand. After you implement, demand planning well, there is little that you can do to improve the bias and the accuracy of the forecasting process. It is what it is.
Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supplychain, and vice versa. A Manufacturing Business Technology report put the issue bluntly. operational climate benefit substantially from full visibility into all operations.
Operations in the manufacturing sector are tightly linked. A change to production demands has implications all the way through to the supplychain, and vice versa. A Manufacturing Business Technology report put the issue bluntly. operational climate benefit substantially from full visibility into all operations.
Managing inventory in a supplychain is complex due to issues like downtime, delays, and demand fluctuations. Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) is an advanced inventory management strategy that optimizes inventory levels across multiple stages or echelons in a supplychain.
In this SupplyChain Matters posting, Ferrari Consulting and Research Group Managing Director Bob Ferrari pens highlights of Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit conference and highlights of a conversation with the company’s Chief SupplyChain Officer. . The company thus remains in an enviable position.
Industrial Manufacturing. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. Automotive. Healthcare.
When I was asked to organize the Innovation and Thought Leadership track at FOCUS 2015 , I recognized that I would need to assemble some high-impact speakers who would get attendees thinking about the radical changes they need to make in their supplychains. Becoming Customer-Centric: Best Practices. Big Data, Big Challenges.
Industrial Manufacturing. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. SupplyChain Management.
Industrial Manufacturing. SupplyChain Management. The Infosys global supplychain management blog enables leaner supplychains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supplychain management landscape. SupplyChain Management.
Supplychain resilience is “the capacity of a supplychain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change” Wikipedia. I am thinking a lot this month about business resilience and the role of supplychain leaders. In the last decade, supplychain performance regressed.
However, as carbon taxes and emissions reporting requirements continue increasing, supplychain professionals face mounting pressures from inside and outside their organizations to measure and improve performance against new, nebulous sustainability metrics. Sustainability is high on the list of favorite corporate buzzwords.
It named its approach ‘segmentation’ and asked customers what they wanted, so that the company could produce different offerings that matched varying needs and wants. What is CRM in SupplyChain Management? A brute force, one-size-fits-all approach in supplychain ends up over-serving some customers and under-serving others.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 102,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content