Videocast Series: Making Retail Smarter
Part IV:
Building Consumer Goods and Retail Supply Chains that are Lean, Green, Efficient, and Sustainable
Building Operational Dexterity in the Consumer Goods Value Chain
 During this webcast we will focus on the importance of operational dexterity in the Consumer Products to Retail industry and share best practices for building supply chains that are lean, green, efficient, and sustainable.
Featuring Christopher Moose, Partner - IBM Business Consulting Services, Supply Chain Management - Logistics Practice
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Michael Watson, IBM Optimization & Supply Chain Solutions, Technical Sales Lead
IBM’s recently released 2010 Global CEO study, Capitalizing on Complexity, identified that CEO’s who have historically identified change as their most pressing challenge are telling us that today, the complexity of operating in an increasingly volatile and uncertain world has become their primary challenge. Furthermore, many of them feel ill-equipped to succeed in this new economic environment.
One of the key insights is the CEO's desire to build operational dexterity.Operational Dexterity enables fast and flexible operations that help businesses find advantages in complexity. "CEOs are mastering complexity in countless ways. They are redesigning operating strategies for ultimate speed and flexibility. They embed complexity that creates value in elegantly simple products, services and customer interactions."
Who needs Operational Dexterity?
- The fast-paced Consumer Products industry requires speed and flexibility to go after new revenue sources and improve customer experiences.
- The highly complex food and beverage industry needs to harness data and analytics to increase efficiencies and cut costs.
- The fresh dairy industry requires agile and flexible scheduling and production plans that decrease product waste and stock shortages.
- Manufacturing firms need to identify their “glocal” strategy to determine which plants should make which products.
- Shipping companies looking to create flexibility by quickly and cheaply getting empty containers back to the correct location.
- Inventory planners who need to improve flexibility and responsiveness by maintaining correct inventory levels and identify the root causes of inventory issues.
- Plant managers looking for advanced scheduling optimization to create more day to day flexibility
- Distribution-centric companies tasked with identifying and sustaining greener supply chain practices.
Complexity can’t be avoided, but building supply chains that are lean, green, efficient, and sustainable can increase a firms ability to respond and adapt dynamically to ever changing business conditions.
We explore all this and more in this outstanding broadcast.
As usual - excellent material from IBM ILOG.
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