The unexpected is to be expected There are forecasts in consumer economies of more than the usual reduction in demand occurring after the 2025-26 peak period of consumer sales. Having delivered products to retailers for the peak period, what comes next for suppliers and their suppliers? As an economy slows, user markets have time to evolve and so do companies. … Read More
Supply Chains use Bills of Materials within the flow
Supply Chains flow Through an organisation’s supply chains, there is a flow between the outbound supply chains, the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and inbound supply chains. The connection between them is the Bill of Materials (BOM) for each stock keeping unit (SKU) and exploded into their respective components and materials for purchase. The diagram below illustrates the flow … Read More
Measures of Inventory Performance in your Supply Chains
Change in Economies The unexpected is to be expected through supply chains. Companies that invest in mapping, monitoring and risk management for their supply chains provide a better understanding of their own capabilities to effectively respond to challenges with supply. But what of future changes to individual economies, regions or globally? These uncertainties will occur, but when and with what … Read More
An organisation structure for the Supply Chains group
Supply Chains are a risk The evolving situation with geopolitics, climate policy and finance highlights the need for organisations selling products to understand their supply chains. Not understanding your organisation’s supply chains is a risk to the business. Understanding includes potential changes in trade patterns (or geometry, measured by: trade intensity, geographic distance, import concentration and geopolitical distance) and how … Read More
Is AgenticAI the next step for planning supply chains?
Are requirements different? AgenticAI can provide opportunities to rethink the way that planning and scheduling processes in industrial businesses are designed, executed, and governed. But it involves more than the installation of a technology. For the Supply Chains group (Procurement, Operations Planning and Logistics), it requires a strategic review, a redesign of workflows, cross-function alignment and a structure of governance. … Read More