Results follow people who put together strategies and successfully implement them. Great tools help, but people are critical to improving your bottom line.
Most likely you are doing a task because you want to serve a customer as almost everything we do at work can be traced back to serving customers; no matter the task.
When it comes to B and C items, seasonal items and other trending patterns, understanding the demand plan isn’t a “nice-to-have”; it is critical to success.
Are you creative and cooperative? It might come in quite handy when trying to solve a "work problem" you've had for quite a while (or even think of an innovative new approach) if you emptied your mind to see what new ideas came to you.
Although the supply chain and operations resources typically coordinate the SIOP process as their skills align best with the majority of the processes, the reason for its success is that it is an organizational priority.
The Spring Executive Panel & Networking Symposium focused on emerging supply chain trends and acknowledged those emergent leaders contributing to manufacturers, supply chain professionals and distributors to improve their education, lead times, forecasting, data analysis and supplier relationships.