Where is your Supply Chain going
In the 80’s it was clear the most important issues that surrounded supply chain were the ability to look over the wall and work with your monopoly. The organisation focus was department and ring fence based, the time focus for the business was weeks to months and the drive was to make stock solely to deliver.
Moving on ten years where had we got to? Later in the 90’s we saw the need to become more responsive, and tackle rival suppliers head on in the market place. The customer approach was much more “they can have it when we’ve got it”, the ERP was born and the time to focus was now at days to weeks.
Again moving ten years on and the “network” was first heard, the idea of collaborating together was born. The customer was now the most important aspect of the chain and all strived to fore fill demand, the pull chain was now in full swing. The web was now ready for use in the supply chain and time to focus is now in real time.
Well we have now breached the 00’s, have you caught up with the flow of trends? There are still companies today that are stuck in the 90’s, a much harder place to move forward from that the 00’s. We continue to see the Supply Chain improve through new innovations but how many are being caught out by not improving there systems?
The future for supply chain is multi party, 100% visibility, cloud computing, appointment scheduling and time to focus, real time. Are you in a position to make these changes, and more importantly do you want to?
In your opinion where is the supply chain going?
Thanks again.
Chris
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