There are actually 2 decoupling points in any supply chain 1. ‘Material’ decoupling point: Strategic inventory is held in as generic a form as possible. This point ideally should lie as far downstream in the supply chain and as close to the final market place as possible. 2. ‘Information’ decoupling Read more…
Today, many consumer goods companies have been forced to accommodate smaller markets, as these niches often provide the only path to growth and escape from heavy price competition. However newly launched products suffer from notoriously high failure rates! Surprisingly new products fail not because of technical shortcomings but because they Read more…
“When the company is not limited to a collocated workspace the idea of who can be part of the workforce expands.“ When we are faced with challenges, we sometimes come up with new ways of working. These new ways also give us excellent results. Problem is that when the challenge Read more…
Shortages of computer chips, medical gear and more have the US grappling for solutions. Post pandemic, even companies are wrestling new challenges. How do we ensure that we are effectively dealing with the post Covid challenges as a company or as a country? We need to necessarily look at 3 Read more…
How did retailers make customers believe they have better availability in a period when high amount of SKUs were unavailable? With the onset of pandemic in 2020, it was clear to retailers that shoppers didn’t really care about price. What they cared about was availability. Retailers noted that what started Read more…
Some tips for planning for Chinese new year shutdown for importers in a year heavily disrupted by Covid-19.Even if you don’t import from China, remember that suppliers all across Asia are highly likely to buy components from China. Therefore, they too could be impacted by a supplier further up the Read more…
We always like reading McKinsey’s State of Fashion for the coming year. Some highlights below for Fashion in 2021. You can download the full report here. According to McKinsey Global Fashion Index analysis, fashion companies will post approximately a 90 percent decline in economic profit in 2020, after a 4 Read more…
It is clear to many of us that the world around us is changing. Today, in our world, there is a high speed of change, ever increasing uncertainty, high complexity and increasing ambiguity. How are we reacting to this world? There are 2 possible options: Popular Option: Increase the predictability Read more…
Having spent time in China, the e-commerce ecosystem there is a lot more multi sensorial (Point 4 below) than in West or even in India. China’s retail architecture is based on the pillars of Social Commerce and Omnichannel. Language is a big issue. I believe that the e-commerce innovations in Read more…
