SupplyChainBrainMore from SupplyChainBrainAll TechnologyNew Tech Platforms Are Changing the Focus of Business Planning StrategyAnalyst Insight: As technology solutions providers improve their offerings, companies are taking another look at integrated business planning (IBP). New scalable workflow and collaboration tools are automating the capture and integration of data across functions, allowing for the development of actionable insights that link day-to-day decisions to overall business strategy. - Can Dogan, principal, Ernst & Young LLPApril 6, 2017All LogisticsEnd-of-Life Logistics: Expanding the Traditional Supply ChainAnalyst Insight: You design a product, source it, build it, store it, ship it, and your consumer enjoys it... then what? It is inevitable that at some point the original intended use will be over and the product will reach its end of life. What happens now is a topic that is piquing the interests of many traditional and non-traditional supply-chain players. The challenge lays in how to efficiently reintegrate or disposition these products. - Melissa Hadhazy, associate partner, Infosys ConsultingApril 6, 2017SC Planning & OptimizationHow to Synchronize the Pharma Supply Chain in Three StepsAnalyst Insight: In today's unpredictable pharmaceutical business climate, supply chains must be synchronized to deliver adequate supply to capture new sales while reducing costs. This is a classic case of balancing risk and opportunity, whereby synchronization allows all required parties to operate in a coordinated and flexible manner resulting in seamless delivery to the customers. Getting this right can drive millions of dollars in value, and there are ways to do this today. - Jay Welsh, principal, Ernest & Young LLP, and Srihari Rangarajan, manager, Ernst & Young LLPApril 5, 2017All LogisticsFour Steps to Align Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics in the WarehouseAnalyst Insight: After 13 years of conducting the Warehousing Education and Research Council’s (WERC) annual DC Measures Study of key warehousing and distribution performance metrics, a pronounced gap remains between "Best-in-Class" and "Major Opportunity" facilities within several key performance indicators. To close that gap by 2020, Major Opportunity warehouses must understand both qualitative and quantitative metrics as they relate to performance improvement. In other words, move beyond the numbers and focus on their processes. –Karl Manrodt, Georgia College & State University; Joseph Tillman, APQC; Steve Murray, Warehousing Education and Research Council; and Michael Mikitka, WERCApril 5, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementRetail in 2020: What Comes After Omnichannel?Analyst Insight: The need to enable omnichannel capabilities has driven significant capital investments and will continue to do so. We are seeing the first wave of omnichannel investments reach maturity and paying dividends. Those companies whose investments were too little or came too late are struggling. But as e-commerce growth continues, steadily carving out more of the retail sales pie, companies will need to re-evaluate their networks and make additional investments to drive competitive advantage. - Jason Denmon, retail industry leader, Fortna Inc.April 5, 2017All LogisticsRetail Revolution: Four Ways Supply Chains Are EvolvingAnalyst Insight: As consumers' relationship with retailers changes, supply chains need to become more agile and responsive to fulfill the promise of an omnichannel world. Wholesale, retail and e-commerce supply chains, which have grown independently over the years, are merging - but significant transformation is necessary to help make omnichannel execution more profitable. - Parag Jategaonkar, performance improvement principal, Ernst & Young LLPApril 4, 2017Global Supply Chain ManagementNew Healthcare Regulations Drive Quest for Supply Chain EfficiencyAnalyst Insight: Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) requirements for serialization, verification and traceability are driving investments in distribution. But leaders are looking beyond compliance for real ROI and competitive advantage. They are looking at different applications and new technologies that enable compliance and allow the business the flexibility to scale with increasing return on additional investment. - Roger Counihan, life sciences industry leader, Fortna Inc.April 4, 2017All LogisticsInventory Strategy Is the Key to Profitable E-CommerceAnalyst Insight: Omnichannel customer expectations continue to drive complexity in inventory planning and management. Expectations for faster fulfillment and free shipping, coupled with pressure to minimize inventory carrying cost, are driving companies to rethink inventory strategies to profitably service customers and ensure inventory is deployed in the right quantities to the right place at exactly the right time. But omnichannel flows like ship-from-store and buy-online-pick-up in-store (BOPIS) are complicating things and creating a new threshold for inventory planning requirements. - George Swartz, vice president, Fortna Inc.April 3, 2017All TechnologyPower in Procurement: Three Approaches to ConsiderAnalyst Insight: Outsourcing continues to grow, yet the news is full of outsourcing agreements that didn't work as planned. Far too often firms rely solely on power to get what they want. This leads to confusion, resentment, lost productivity, and at times, missed market opportunities. Suppliers and buyers need to better understand the use of power, and how this relationship will impact performance. - Karl Manrodt, professor of logistics and supply chain management, Georgia College and State UniversityApril 3, 2017All TechnologyPredictive Analytics Aim to Transform Supply Chain Risk ManagementAnalyst Insight: The key to supply-chain risk management is a predictive model that uses enhanced analytics to identify potential risk. This model would allow companies to move beyond historical metrics so they can determine risk for every part and supplier. It also would identify the appropriate response, promoting consistency within the organization. - Sven Dharmani, performance improvement principal and global automotive sector supply chain leader, Ernst & Young LLPApril 3, 2017Previous PagePage 448 of 589Next Page
