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Digital Supply Chains

Digital Supply Chains

Few established companies have fully digitized their end-to-end operations. But digitization can be a feasible solution to operational challenges seen across many companies and industries. Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), describes the impact that increased connectivity, automation, and more have had on technology, industry, and society.  Industry 4.0 has helped them sustain their operations during the COVID-19 crisis; over half said their digital transformations have been crucial to their pandemic responses.

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Difference Between Value Chains and Supply Chains

Difference Between Value Chains and Supply Chains

A supply chain includes all the raw materials and parts that are made into a product and distributed up the chain for manufacture and sale. In contrast, a va...

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Handling Long Term Uncertainty

Handling Long Term Uncertainty

Firefighting. This refers to short-term, day-to-day actions that can help identify previously overlooked supply chain gaps. These tactics don’t build resilience, however, so they should be used only in concert with more complex, long-term reforms.

Integrating and st...

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Achieving Structural Resilience

Achieving Structural Resilience

Quick responses are easier to accomplish, but if long-term resilience is the goal, the following techniques can help:

  • constructing a digital twin of the most critical parts of the supply chain, allowing for simulations and test cases
  • creating and testing “what if” scenarios

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The Working Of Great Supply Chain Orgs

The Working Of Great Supply Chain Orgs

Supply chain management (and operations, more broadly) is now a CEO-level concern. Some of the strategic operational questions that CEOs have on their agenda include the following:

Can we meet customer demand both today and tomorrow?

Should we boost capac...

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Digitization For Efficiency

Digitization For Efficiency

Digitization, including advanced analytics, automation, and machine learning, can help operations become more productive, flexible, and geared for speed. Such approaches have yielded real results for some leading organizations—for example, reducing inventory and cost of goods sold by 30 percent, ...

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Moving Towards Integrated Business Planning

Moving Towards Integrated Business Planning

While some leading organizations have already realized value from digitization, others are lagging behind. Modernizing supply chain IT—for instance, to improve demand forecasting and planning systems—can have a powerful effect. For organizations looking to step up on IT for supply chain planning,...

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The Right Structure

The Right Structure

Incremental efforts aren’t enough to capture the full potential, and drilling down into the right supply chain structure and physical footprints is a critical starting point. 

Midsize supplier plants with 1,000 to 1,500 employees were nearly twice as likely as bigger or smaller counterparts...

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Five Areas Where Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Show Up

Five Areas Where Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Show Up

  • planning and supplier networks
  • transportation and logistics systems
  • financial resiliency
  • product complexity
  • organizational maturity

Supply chain disruptions lasting one month or longer occur every 3.7 years, on average. And these disruptions can ha...

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Supply Chain Disruption

Supply Chain Disruption

When any link in a supply chain isn’t working optimally, you might say the supply chain has been disrupted. Different issues can emerge. For example, an increase in inbound m...

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Inflation And Supply Chains

Inflation And Supply Chains

Inflation can play a role in supply chain challenges. When inflation occurs, costs for input materials (

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The Stakeholders

The Stakeholders

  • producers, which make or grow the raw materials for goods
  • vendors, which buy and sell materials
  • manufacturers, which make materials into goods
  • transporters, or logistics providers, which move those goods around the world
  • supply chain managers, which ensure tha...

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Supply Chain Resilience

Supply Chain Resilience

Resilience refers to the ability to withstand, adapt, and thrive in the face of internal and external shocks—both known and unknown. More specifically, 

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Understanding Supply Chains

Understanding Supply Chains

A supply chain is made up of interconnected parts of a whole, all of which add up to finished products bought by customers. Take automobiles, for example. Before a consumer buys a car, iron ore is extracted from the earth. The ore is transported to a plant, where it’s turned into steel, which is ...

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Supply Chain Risks

Supply Chain Risks

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has delivered the biggest supply chain or value chain shock in recent memory, other examples abound. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to ...

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Classification Of Supply Chain Shocks

Classification Of Supply Chain Shocks

Supply chain shocks are classified into four different types:

Unanticipated catastrophes. These are historically remarkable events that can’t be anticipated and lead to trillions of dollars in losses.  

Foreseeable catastrophes. Shocks in this categor...

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Resilience, Agility, and Sustainability

Resilience, Agility, and Sustainability

Organizations often focus on managing the shocks that they see most often. The COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder that while outliers are rare, organizations still need to consider such possibilities when making decisions and strategic moves.

For most organizations, that will mean expanding s...

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