Posts Tagged "supply chain"

A Supply Chain Executive’s  winning formula is: Support the CEO’s vision and provide a Supply Chain vision Maintain a strategic focus including: Help create and support a Focused Business Plan Define Key Initiatives & metrics All of the above easily remembered and communicated Create  an A+ team Make sure accountability is in place Simplify and keep on simplifying Let’s first look at accountability and simplifying. In...

Gartner votes Apple as the top supply chain for 2013. Steve Jobs and Tim Cook both oversaw Apples Supply Chain. “When Cook took over the supply chain, he cut the number of component suppliers from 100 to 24, in a move to force the companies to compete for Apple’s business. Cook then shut down 10 of the 19 company warehouses to limit overstocking, and by September 1998 inventory was down from a month to only six days” Your...

There are a few ways to create a world class supply chain. When I talk about Supply Chain I’m starting at the Sales and Operations Plan and integrating all key functions to make that plan a success. Oliver Wight I’ve recently completed participating in a project based on the principals of the Oliver Wight system of Sales and Operational Planning excellence.  What I admire about this methodology is that it is a very holistic approach...

A few areas I have experience with. Master Data – It all starts here. The Master data process must insure that data input is 100% accurate and efficient. Sales and Operations Planning Smoothing – The Sales plan will blow down to your demand affecting master scheduling, capacity, and subsequently MRP and Shop floor control. MRP Exception Message measurements – Exception messages indicate that there is an exception to...

ERP (Enterprise resource planning) systems integrate and automate business practices including Finance, Sales, Operations, Warehouse and any other aspects of a company engaged in manufacturing products or services. SCM (Supply chain management) network includes MRP planning, sourcing, procurement, inventory, production, associated master data and all logistics management activities. The primary objective of supply chain management is...