2012 Supply Chain Trends

Almost half way down 2012, I think we can start to have mid-year roundup of top Supply Chain transformation initiatives being undertaken by major CPG & Retail players.  Starting of a new era after so called recession, focus of the industry shifted back from cost cutting to expansion strategies and that is what we are observing in supply chain organizations now. Many companies increased...

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Posted in: Mergers and Acquisitions,Multichannel Management Solutions,Sales and Operations Planning,supply chain management,Supply Chain Planning,Supply Chain Trends,Trade Promotion Management

S&OP in a Nutshell

S&OP process is backbone of a supply chain. It brings together the demand and supply components to enable advance planning for smooth functioning of supply chain. It all began sometime back when it was realized that independent isolated departmental plans can not be continued to attain efficiency. And thus the need for a consensus plan became apparent for which all the silos of the enterprise...

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Changing focus from Lean to Green

There was a time when the focus of the CPG and manufacturing companies was to have a lean supply chain and projects such as six sigma, kaizen etc were omnipresent in the industry. Every company had strategic agenda to have least possible inventory, minimized wastage and optimization of bottlenecks. Some of the companies even included suppliers to the lean value chain initiatives with a vision of...

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Posted in: Environmental Impact of Supply Chains,Green Supply Chain,supply chain management,Sustainance

Supply Chain Evolution

Things evolve, sometimes for better and at other times for worst. Supply chain for one has been prevalent to every other thing we know of. Its just that Supply Chain got recognized and defined in recent times and has evolved continously to what we are witnessing today. Supply chain evolution really geared up with recent innnovations occuring due to IT strategy being intertwined with supply chain...

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Posted in: Supply Chain