Você é responsável por uma cadeia de suprimentos. Como você pode garantir que ele seja resiliente o suficiente para resistir a interrupções?

Inventory Optimization such as employing techniques like Buffer Inventory, JIT to mitigate supply chain risks. Transportation Resilience is a a key part to minimize the impact of any disruption forecasted. Monitor transportation performance and proactively address any issues to ensure on-time delivery.

To ensure a resilient supply chain, diversify suppliers and distribution channels, reducing dependency on a single source. Implement robust risk management strategies, identifying potential disruptions and creating contingency plans. Invest in technology for real-time tracking and predictive analytics to anticipate and mitigate risks. Cultivate strong relationships with suppliers and partners, fostering open communication and collaboration. Continuously assess and adapt the supply chain strategy to evolving market dynamics and emerging threats, ensuring agility and readiness to respond to disruptions effectively.

Visibility is the most important aspect in supply chain while accessing risks. There are always situations which were not at all planned. Navigating the situation with maximum customer satisfaction as well as minimum loss to the firm is a challenge which only experience and previous history can solve.

Sometimes, the source of raw material can be changed but at the same time, it may not be viable because of the lack of ecosystem. This creates possibility of supply chain disruption due to natural and unnatural phenomena. Logistics cost is the most important metric in this situation. Planning is very important to make sure that production never gets affected.

Company receives cash when the product is reached at the retail store or destination warehouse. A strong and efficient logistics player is absolutely essential. Or else, the manufactured product will become dead stock.

One thing I believe is important. Supply chain resilience should be integrated in the corporate strategy. Since resilience requires adopting certain strategies that balance cost and risk, this concept usually requires support from multi functions like finance, sales and CEO. It's one of the challenges companies face in pursuing resilience.

Sensors and software can provide near real time picture of the supply chain processes. Decision making can be better if the management utilizes such technology. Advent of GenAI has elevated the potential of technology

Having an end to end data solutions with a GenAI chat based querying to make sense of historical data helps companies plan ahead.

HOW TO STOP DISRUPTION IN A SUPPLY CHAIN WHERE YOU ARE IN CHARGE. Firstly, to ensure smooth business operations your team members should have empathy , emotional awareness ; accountability, service and achievement orientation and integrity for the job. Secondly,there should be collaborative operations with source organizations to ensure consistent and continuous resources mobilization. Thirdly, contingency and trigger point threats should be noted,and solutions found. Some of these threats are high inflationary trends, source organizations products over valuation, resignations or retirement of high valued staff,storms,theft, and internal sabotage,etc. Lastly, high level automated software should be used to assist in internal control.