It is important to highlight that even the warehouse canvas is built on the sustainability of the improvements. The tool does not substitute the need for a remarkable Warehouse Manager with the skill of change management and making things sustainable and…
Supply Chain Management Canvas
This one-page framework will support supply chain departments to identify and deliver higher operational and financial performance. However, the success of the implementation of the tool will likely depend on “the mind of the supply chain strategist.” I mean the supply…
The Lost Link to Make Strategy Work: Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
What is Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)? The S&OP is a tool that was created in the 70s with the purpose of operations planning mainly for manufacturing environments. Since then, the planning tool has expanded its scope to other departments and…
10 Steps of How to Implement the Value Chain Concept Successfully
The 10 steps of value chain The first step is defining the Business Strategy of the firm. I mean defining our main Value Discipline (Operational Excellence, Customer Intimacy or Product Leadership according to Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema) or our Core…
Sales Efficient Supply Chain Management (SESCM): A Success Foundation for a Business Model
In turnaround situations, we used to find uncoordinated Sales and SCM areas which blame to each other. Implementing SESCM strategy is not an easy job, but these initiatives can really turnaround the firm performance and profitability. Exploring lean techniques is a…
Tax Efficient Supply Chain Management: TESCM Strategies
We have to mention that this very attractive TESCM strategy has some risks that need probably be mitigated with support of experienced tax consultancy firms. In the last years many large corporations have moved headquarters to countries like Switzerland, and any…
How Important Must the SCM Function Be?
Thus, having a robust SCM function is a key cornerstone to compete nowadays. CEOs must realize of the full potential of having an important and integrated SCM function rather than breaking the SCM ideas in several departments with the risk of…
When Should We Outsource Activities?
The big disadvantage of outsourcing that used to be mentioned is the “loss of control”. Although with the information systems that today are in place, and managing properly the relationship with the outsourced firm by having regular meeting and conference calls,…
Company Improvement Phases: How Do We Accelerate Improvements?
This classification has been widely used (Gartner, PRTM, SCOR, APICS, and so on) but most of the time the improvements have been related to the IT status of the organization, and now we are trying to briefly analyze that classification from turnaround,…
Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Marketing/Sales Strategies Alignment
The two other supply chains and manufacturing strategies related to make-to-order Engineer-to order: Customers’ orders will require of engineering specific designs. So inventory “cannot be built” until the sales order is not received, and the design needs are known. Assemble-to-order: Compare…