Você está enfrentando atrasos nas entregas dos fornecedores. Como você navegará no conflito ao longo dos cronogramas?

It requires transparency and strategic communication. Start by acknowledging the problem to all stakeholders and assessing its impact. Reach out to the supplier for insights and negotiate new timelines. Keep stakeholders informed. Develop contingency plans with backup suppliers and monitor the situation closely. After resolving the issue, review what happened to prevent future occurrences and strengthen supplier relationships through regular interactions. This proactive approach fosters trust and preparedness for future challenges, ensuring stronger operations and stakeholder support.

Get to the route cause of the problem. Open communication with the supplier. Collaborative and integrative approach to vendor management . Create the environment that suppliers have an inherent responsibility to communicate potential bottlenecks in the supply chain so that a buyer can employ such strategies as dual or multi sourcing. At the stage of contracting sufficient clauses must be in the contract to give the supplier motivation to deliver within timelines and also some penalties associated with failing to meet delivery time lines

Get on the front foot. If for regular stock deliveries. Review your demand and order in advance. Take into account extended lead times and manage your stock where possible. Look at simple conservation measures to try and manager your usage so you can navigate the challenging times without impact to your business by managing more hands on if required. Especially if your organisation is a consumer of products.

In current JIT & Digital times it’s important to have clear visibility & transparency between Customers & Suppliers. One should hv clear view of inventories & WIP & any abnormality should be captured well within the reaction times required for alternative actions like understanding the causes & corrective actions to avoid any delivery failures to End Customers. In case the supplier’s reliability is <100% in that case either some Safety Stocking or alternate sourcing should be there as contingency plans. Also, final customer should be kept informed in advance if delivery failure is unavoidable.