Thebusinesscasefor.PDFVIP

The business case for agile supply chains Dierentiate, Innovate, Perform From cost reduction to improved responsiveness, introducing agility into your supply chain can deliver measurable financial and time saving benefits. Plus, you can leverage your supply chain to tackle significant strategic goals, like increasing shareholder value or demonstrating your green credentials. But what exactly is agility in the context of your supply chain, how do you take it from boardroom objective to operational reality? And why is logistics such a key part of any transformation? Reference Number: 001 Contents 1. Introduction 2. Supply chain agility in action 3. How to become agile 4. Conclusion 1. Introduction Putting a business The ability to tap into the intellectual or engineering talent within the supply chain can value on agile be a compelling proposition. For example, many of the major consumer device manufacturers In an uncertain world, creating an agile supply use their networks as extended research and chain is the mantra for companies looking to development departments – offering solutions offset a broadening spectrum of risk – and that lead to new products or improvements to boost responsiveness to changes in in the old. customer demand. But supply chains are also on the boardroom But what is agility? How does one get it? And agenda for what they can’t do. Should a link in the perhaps more to the point, what are the tangible chain snap (as we have seen countless times due business outcomes? to natural disasters, social unrest and the like)