OPTIMIZING SUPPLY CHAIN CATALYSING TRANSFORMATION

With businesses growing global and supply chains getting longer, managing operations around the world has become a great challenge. In addition to this, growing complexities and changes are placing immense pressure on companies to ensure sizable gains in customer service levels, maintain optimum inventory, increase production rate stability, introduce new products very rapidly and be competitive with year over year growth in gross margins. Sales and operations planning is a set of decision making processes with the three main objectives that enable organizations to balance demand and supply, align volume and mix, and integrate operational plans with financial plans which are collectively called as “Integrated Business Planning” (IBP). We know demand is the driver; it’s what the customers want. Whereas, supply refers to the resources available to meet the demand. If demand or supply exceeds one over the other, we have an imbalance and businesses encounter bad days. However, this can be avoided if the organization can diligently add more capacity sooner than the actual demand. This is possible only when decision makers have access and visibility to vital information on supply and demand. So the real challenge is not about the demand and supply imbalance. It’s all about seeing the imbalances soon enough to take corrective actions that are needed for resolving modern day supply chain problems.

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AILOG- Italian Association of Logistics and Supply Chain Management

AILOG, Associazione Italiana di Logistica e di Supply Chain Management, è il punto di riferimento per le Imprese e per le Istituzioni sui temi della logistica aziendale e del territorio, con particolare attenzione alle Infrastrutture.

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