Why My Best Clients Focus on Responsiveness
As customers continue to demand shorter lead times, it becomes imperative for manufacturers and distributors to become more responsive and improve order fulfillment cycle time
Collaborative Planning
By collaborating, we create a win-win-win. The customer has what he needs when he needs it without having to go out of his way and deviate from his typical process. The supplier has information in advance about an upcoming event and so can modify plans as appropriate to better serve his customer at the lowest inventory levels and maximum efficiency levels.
Supply Chain Metrics
Supply chain performance metrics include reliability, responsiveness, agility, cost, and asset management efficiency for strategic success
The Beatles Cirque du Soleil and Supply Chain
Think about one of your products or materials. What does your supply chain look like?
Supply Chain Strategist Lisa Anderson to Present the Amazon Effect to Supply Chain and Operations Leaders at APICS 2015
Lisa Anderson will speak to APICS 2015 attendees from manufacturing, operations, distribution and supply chain on Priming Your Supply Chain for The Amazon Effect
The Value of Process Flows
Being a systems pragmatist is critical in not making assumptions about your processes, but rather review every production step to uncover any issues that were not being addressed. Being a systems pragmatist is critical in not making assumptions about your processes, but rather review every production step to uncover [...]
Is Your Supply Chain Ready for Growth?
Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) offers companies a chance to partner with customers to better manage inventory and costs. Once the partnership proves fruitful, expanded business opportunities occur.
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.
SIOP/ Integrated Business Planning
Manufacturing and distributing product to meet customer demand can be like a puzzle unless you start using SIOP as a core process to run your business. SIOP (sales, inventory, & operations planning) taken to the best practice degree is often associated with integrated business planning. In some circles, they [...]