Inventory or Capacity?
Inventory has emerged as a hot topic lately. In today’s Amazon-impacted business environment, customers expect rapid, customized deliveries, the ability to change their mind anytime and easy interactions.
Ideas to Fill Peak Capacity Periods
As we toured several e-commerce facilities such as UPS and Amazon, it became obvious that the sheer volume during peak season presents a huge dilemma. For example, UPS goes from 250-300 containers per night to 450 during peak season. Now that is quite a surge! Amazon has similar surges and stated facts such as 68 million orders on Cyber Monday.
The Resilient Supply Chain: What If You Sell More?
In thinking about the answer to the question, "What if you sell more?", most sales people would cheer. Most accountants would add up the additional revenue and profit. And, often, the Operations resources would be glad the leaders are in a good mood. But does anyone know if we are set up to successfully handle the increased sales if they occur?
Are You Achieving Scalable, Profitable Growth?
When we look back over the last 13 years of consulting with closely-held building products manufacturers to medium, private-equity backed food and beverage firms to large aerospace corporations, every single client has one goal in common – achieving scalable, profitable growth. It sounds somewhat easy but is far from simple in reality.
Transportation Capacity Tight & Rates on the Rise
Do you have backup transportation built into your model? Are you considering additional transportation partners such as third-party logistics providers (3PL) and brokers? Perhaps they shouldn't be considered a last resort.
Global Manufacturers Struggle to Keep Up with Demand – Are You?
Factories across the globe are showing signs of strain in keeping up with demand. China, Germany, France, Canada, the UK and the US all show that capacity might not be keeping up with supply.
SIOP: How Far Should You Look into the Future?
SIOP guides strategic forecasting to determine the optimal horizon for planning and future-proofing your supply chain operations.
The Aerospace Industry Supply Chain Ready for Growth
Although evaluating your supply chain readiness is paramount to support growth, there is no reason to wait for your customers to request an audit.
Addressing Warehouse Space Challenges
One of those frequent and frustrating problems with growth can be space. Who has heard, "I've run out of space! What should we do?". Unfortunately it is not uncommon.
Types of Capacity
Businesses with growth ambitions have to gauge the current capacity of every facet of their facility to plan future productivity