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.
It’s vital that you’re more creative than your competitors, as Best Practice today will not be Best Practice tomorrow. You must always be one-step ahead if you are going to win. Retailers and customers are demanding better service, lower costs and faster, more flexible delivery. If you can’t deliver on these demands you won’t be delivering at all.
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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