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Building the Case for Supply Chain Visibility

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Supply chain visibility is at the top of many executives’ priority lists. Capgemini conducted a survey in May 2011, and found that 45 percent of the survey takers listed visibility as their main goal for the year. Have you started yet?

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This week’s limerick (11)

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A purchaser coming from Rye
from China sourced all he could buy.
With lead times too long
most forecasts went wrong.
And unsellable stock turned high.

Are you struggling with demand-supply matching and long lead times? Revisit our posts on supplier collaboration and inventory visibility?

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The Supplier Collaboration Challenge – going global AND local at the same time

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Talking to a major grocery wholesale/retail customer confirmed how changing demand patterns also heavily affect supplier management.  The retailer needed to build better relationships with remote suppliers and at the same time satisfy a growing demand  for local food products.  They asked us how we could help them enable new suppliers cost-effectively with supplier collaboration technology.

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Design for Change

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You have down-sized and maybe outsourced in the recession. You struggle to ramp-up quickly enough and grumble over new product introductions when the wheels start to spin. Let’s face it; the only stable factor in supply chain is a constant need for change. It is time to make that part of your design!

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