Are tomatoes a critical item? Recent alarm in the UK concerning a shortage of tomatoes highlights the question for your organisation’s supply chains. Which items are identified as critical for finished products? The BBC reported that UK authorities said the tomato shortage would last a few weeks and was due to cold weather in Spain and North Africa, which was … Read More
Define Supply Chains Design with a description of Flows
Effectiveness for supply chains There remains too much of a focus in business on efficiency of the organisation’s many silos (teams, departments, groups etc). However, your customers’ concern is how the organisation’s supply chains are able to satisfy their needs – how effective is your business? So, a critical aspect of your organisation’s supply chains is not the efficiency of … Read More
Logistics strategy to cover the longer five-year term
Strategy for changing your supply chains Supply Chains are not managed. Instead, they respond to events and decisions at each Node and Link in each supply chain. A response is therefore ’emergent’. This requires that functions within your organisation’s Supply Chains must respond to emergent situations and adapt their approach to the affected supply market. This adaptability must extend to … Read More
Operational Logistics strategy for two-year improvement
Two strategies a better approach The role of Logistics is to provide Availability of products and services for customers. To provide Availability requires the management of inventory – incorporating policy, planning and control. Without effective management of inventory, investments in automation are wasted when handling and moving unnecessary inventory. Change takes time. Organisations need time to move from an initial … Read More
Build close strategies for Marketing and Supply Chains
Changes in economies and business will happen The previous blogpost discussed changes that could occur in the global economy, due to forces that influence world trade. Although the list is not definitive, changes will occur that can have an influence on your organisation’s supply chains strategy. The diagram below shows the alignment necessary between the discipline strategies for each of … Read More