Supply Chain Strategy
Your supply chain is the execution vehicle of your company's business strategy. It must be efficient, but it must also be responsive to today's constantly changing environment with shorter product lifecycles, fluctuating inventory levels and changing costs. Studies have shown that it's a company's ability to respond to change that distinguishes leaders from laggards. Being operationally efficient may positively impact the short term, but it does not lead directly to long-term profitability.
Your supply chain must be both operationally excellent and market responsive.
But few companies recognize the impact that becoming more responsive will have on their supply chain. They underestimate the fundamental shifts that are needed to move from being simply efficient to becoming truly responsive. Hitachi Consulting can help you develop a Supply Chain Strategy that will drive both efficiency and responsiveness through:
- Defining holistic processes and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that reward
cross-functional, customer-driven metrics. - Developing collaborative processes, both within your company and with partners
and customers - Defining an organization structure that rewards integrated, not siloed thinking
What Separates Leading Manufacturers From Laggards?
Being operationally efficient may positively impact the short term, but it does not lead directly to long-term profitability.
Supply Chain Responsiveness Study
Hitachi Consulting and AMR Research survey of 164 manufacturers on what they are doing to become more responsive to customer needs and market conditions while also reducing costs.
Don't Drain the Supply Chain Bank
The traditional supply chain approach tends to help companies save pennies, but lose dollars. This article suggests five actions that lead to significant cost savings, but that cannot be tackled by traditional means.
A Four-Step Program for Improving Supply Chain Agility
Traditional supply chains are built for efficient response. With product proliferation and rising demand error, companies need to move from focusing on efficiency to agile response. The problem is that these are goals are mutually exclusive.
Building a Supply Chain that Responds Well to Market Changes - Based on an Interview by Senior Editor Bob Bowman of Supply Chain Brain with Michelle Meyer, Director of Supply Chain Solutions at Hitachi Consulting.
Hitachi Consulting helps companies become both operationally excellent and market responsive. For more specific examples of our solutions, see our Supply Chain Services.
