Supply Chain elements The global trading situation contains multiple risks, so not understanding your organisation’s core and extended supply chains is a risk to the business. To gain this understanding requires an analysis of the main elements within an organisation’s supply chains. These are: customers, finished goods inventory, suppliers and inbound supply items. For inbound supply items, an increased emphasis … Read More
Supplier Risks in Supply Chains identify their Segment
Uncertainty and Risk Segmentation of activities within your organisation’s supply chains is an early step to reduce the complexity of an organisation’s supply chains. Segmenting customers on the basis of ‘cost to serve’ was discussed in a previous blogpost. Here, the discussion is concerned with segmenting suppliers. But where many still regard buy price and total spend as the main … Read More
Resilient supply chains are required in the near future
A different structure When will the next major disruption to your organisation’s supply chains occur? And what will be the cause – climate, conflict, pandemic, financial? For each of these questions there is not an answer, although many predictions. But if supply chain professionals wait until a disruption occurs before responding, then it may be too late for the business. … Read More
Customers in supply chains have their Cost to Serve
Cost to Serve for your customers If sales are made to customers without knowing the total cost of the business relationship, there are two major risks. The first is selling products to a customer that is thought to be profitable, but is not. The second is to negotiate increased sales or higher levels of service with customers that already incur an … Read More
Segment elements of supply chains for better management
Effectiveness or efficiency The previous blogpost discussed the benefits from reducing the number of stock keeping units (SKUs) offered for businesses operating in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) or consumer product goods (CPG) sector. Alternatively, there can be the necessity of adapting operations to an increase in the number of SKUs. A recent report, published by the consulting firm … Read More