Over the years, in working with many successful supply chain managers, we’ve noticed that the best ones have something amazingly simple in common: they make responding to their marketplace’s changing needs first priority – and keep the focus on using their suppliers to meet those needs.
When you can help your suppliers see your customers’ demands – the ultimate “pull” signals – they are in a better position to organize and produce effectively, leveraging their own capabilities to meet, through you, what the marketplace is asking for.
Does this reduce their role to that of the glorified matchmaker? Perhaps it does, in a sense. But it also makes them very, very successful. The Progress Group can help you link your suppliers with downstream customer demand and teach them how to produce, for you, to meet it. We can also help you plan where and how to overlay special events on normal (“common-cause”) demand variation.
For more information, contact: Bruce Strahan, 770-804-9920, bstrahan@theprogressgroup.com |
