Our organization is apparel producers and sold through 30 country wide retail outlets. As a policy customer can bring product to a retail store (collection point) free of charge for sake of alteration. In peak season, reverse logistics initiated from each retail stores almost on daily basis. Our org

What important factor to be considered by supply chain in ERP implementing?

Sales of new designs, is so difficult to forecast, desire to exploit sales opportunities and large batch runs turn into excess holdings of unsold items. In many items this situation leading to low inventory turns and increases in holding cost due to excess inventory. In those circumstances how we ca

We are facing uncertainty due to a variety of factors but uncertainty in demands from customers is most hurting one. To incorporate operational flexibility in supply chain and to better match supply and demand, we have started working on postponement. By using delayed differentiation, can we reduce

Organization continued relied on in adequate decision of experienced professionals having knowledge in operations. These settlers having none or less knowledge in tactical and strategic ranges. These in adequate decisions pose new challenges in digital era supply chain. It has been proved that tradi

Recently in our organization, the disadvantages of holding inventory have been increasingly recognized, particularly its adverse impact on supply chain and warehouse cost. Is the role of warehouses in future would be eliminated due to leaner inventories?

We are continuously facing fierce competition on finished goods unit cost. To remain competitive targets are set for cost reduction within supply chain as well. We have the option to move on low cost sources of raw material from local to global. What would be deciding factors in favor of off-shore l

Attempts for waste reductions beyond the organizational borders at supplier level have never practiced. Focus on supplier improvement approach misses out opportunities to improve utilizing joint capabilities. The inability by organizations to understand costs, processes and potential opportunities f

Our company is FMCG and we have often face turbulence in demand. No one in our company is trying to suppress turbulence. Instead, management encourages high turbulence in demand. How to cope up with demand variations that tend to have a negative impact on supply chain performance and operations in t

Survey results shows that our customer’s perceptions of our retail stores performance is poor. The company’s views on poor service quality have linkages with supply chain. Whereas, our supply chain has made all the efforts to reduce the cost and improve the stock position. Advise, how supply chain c

My manufacturing company has 11 final products. All products have four categories based on sizes. The entire system cannot see the real end-demand. Half of the company’s customers are distributors and not real customers. So the company has to depend on history based forecasts. This results in obvio

We are manufacturer of durable goods and operating business since last thirty years. Our firm business model based on selling through few exclusive distributors. They have gained exclusive distribution deals to achieve wide coverage in their geographic. Overtime the distributor tend to be uncooperat