A lesson from the pandemic is the strategic and critical importance of supply chain management. With that goes the need for supply chain resilience. Both inside and outside four walls. It started out about technology, but as the pandemic continued, logistics and logistics infrastructure is showing as a key for supply chain resilience. View these for content that may assist you to make your supply chain resilient.
3. First and
pre-pandemic
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How well did your
supply chain operate?
How did you measure its
performance?
Where are your pain
points?
What would you change
about your supply chain?
4. Asking
• How has the robust supply
chain & its logistics uncertainty
& chaos affected your
operations, planning, sales,
and ERP?
• What have you learned?
• What ongoing problems do you
have?
• Beyond the immediate, what
are you doing to adapt and
change going forward?
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6. Big supply chain &
resilience picture
Your supply chain
You are part of your customers’ supply chains
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7. Strategy/Action
Plan
• Strategy vs react
• Supply chain scope—size, complexity
& end to end
• 2 Approaches
• Traditional—transport & logistics or
inside the 4 walls & outside 4 the
walls (node/link or start/stop)
• Takeaway--upstream/inbound &
downstream/outbound (flow)
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18. Process
Horizontal process (biggest process you have)
Internal
External: upstream & downstream
Gaps & Redundancies
Align operations & sales to SCM (more than S&OP)
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19. Hint: Follow your products/inventory
Process (not procedure) vs
size of supply chain
complexity
all the participants
Start: how you think it done
Then: track it; who does what; where;
how, how long—internal & external/end
to end
Gaps & redundancies in flows of
products/feedstocks (purchase &
customer)
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20. Technology
Contactless: Drones, driverless trucks, warehouse robotics, 3D printing
Data and analytics end-to-end/internal & external (and data sharing)
Digitization
Blockchain
Visibility
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23. Blockchain
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• Digitize & digital ledger
• Decentralized
• Visibility, lean, transparency,
streamlined
• One-on-one?
• International order shipment
• Many parties
• End to end
• Chain of custody
• Sustainability
24. Tech Note
B/L is document of title, cargo
receipt, transport contract.
Using a forwarder
Two B/Ls
House
Master
Digitization
Visibility
Blockchain
Chain of custody
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26. Riddle me this
1) Technology as part of strategy or
reactions
2) Digitization and Contactless
Delivered shipment quantity vs bill
of lading quantity
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31. What is going on
Lack of empties
Blank sailings
Missed ports of call
Rolled containers
Poor on-time performance
Rates going UP across modes
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32. What do you think?
Over 12 months, have the demand that
supply chains are trying to satisfy and global
reality gone beyond resilience?
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33. The Outside: Logistics
• Across transport modes
• Providers—who & why
• Power shift
• New way of negotiating and what to
target in negotiations
• Buying rates or service
• Rates or relationship
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34. Logistics & Transportation
Providers
About the supply chain
Inventory & performance impact
Role and place of service providers &
relationship in your supply chain
Lesson learned: Real contracts with
defined, measurable service
3PL or 3PSCM / SCMaaS
Ports
Force Majeure!!!
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41. Inventory
• Types: finished goods /
feedstock / ingredients /
parts / components
/assemblies / packaging
• Questions
• What channels
• Changes: kitting &
repackaging
• What products (A, B, C)
• Where position
• At suppliers
• In transit
• At warehouses
• At stores / factories
• Additional warehousing 41
42. Inventory
• Forecasting in a pandemic
• “Optimization”
• Inventory (inventory turns/days of
inventory) speed –HOW OFTEN YOU GET
PAID
• Critical products
• A,B,C
• More stocking points as to inventory &
complexity
• Velocity/turns & alternative investments
• Integrated visibility
• CoViD—more or buffer inventory
• Inventory & warehousing
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43. More Inventory?
Inventory sales ratio
Product substitutions
Process
Revenue maximization
How many times do you amend a purchase
order?
Time and inventory
International lean
Speed—now & future (IoT)
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