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…
