What is a Supply Chain Control Tower? One Network’s Intelligent Control Tower is not your typical control tower, that provides visibility to immediate trading partners only. The Intelligent Control Tower monitors, manages, and controls decisions and execution across functions and across companies to optimize the entire network. Read more on this free link
How Supply Chain Buffers Can Mitigate Risk. Supply chain planning is a proactive approach to preparing for and marshalling resources in anticipation of future demand, however, a problem with most planning efforts is that they assume no uncertainty in demand or supply.Read more on this free link
The demand driven approach to inventory buffer sizing is very similar to the Lean approach with two clear differences. The Demand Driven approach flexes inventory buffers according to dynamic demand and it is a multi-echelon approach that takes account of factors such as inventory positioning.Read more on this free link
The New Essential for Supply Chains: Intelligent Execution Control Tower. More than ever, companies today—especially in the wake of COVID-19 Read more on this free link
Today’s control towers provide powerful capabilities and real-time responsiveness with autonomous problem-solving, global demand-supply matching, and global available-to-promise, achieving increased efficiency, resilience, and world-class performance.Read more on this free link
Help predict supply chain risks through data driven insights Organizations are faced with an increased level of disruption and global risks exposed within their global, regional and even domestic supply chains.Read more on this free link
Building on Supply Chain Benchmarking and KPIs for the Future. Supply chain managers are gradually gaining a better understanding of their daily operations, but they may be missing out on a key aspect. Read more on this free link
From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions. Traditional methods for managing supply chain risk rely on knowing the likelihood of occurrence and the magnitude of impact for every potential event that could materially disrupt a firm’s operations.Read more on this free link
Why now is the time to stress-test your industrial supply chain. An effective way to increase supply-chain resilience is to understand the impact a crisis could have, well before it happens.Read more on this free link
Like your business, your supply chain is a vast and complex network. Businesses need to source product from suppliers, who may also source materials and components from their own suppliers, and so on. Read more on this free link
Is your supply chain risk blind—or risk resilient? Operational risk to supply chains has been growing over the last several years—compounded by the ongoing impact from COVID-19. Organizations need a new approach to manage risk and build resiliency. Read more on this free link
A practical approach to supply-chain risk management. In the last decade, a number of organizations have been rocked by unforeseen supply-chain vulnerabilities and disruptions, leading to recalls costing hundreds of millions of dollars in industriesRead more on this free link
Proactive risk management can help limit organizations’ exposure to energy market volatility. Successful strategies apply forward-looking market analysis and factor in global, regional and national nuances.Read more on this free link
Impacts to Automotive Supply Chains from COVID-19. The outbreak of COVID-19 could be the most significant event to impact the US economy in generations with the potential for ripple effects in the automotive market and supply chain for years to come. Read more on this free link
Five Ways S&OP Enables Collaboration and More Intelligent Forecasting. In 2011, 65% of supply chains experienced a disruptionRead more on this free link