Navigating the Supply Chain: The Key to Success Lies in Alignment

Bringing alignment across various teams is critical for high effectiveness.

When it comes to making a supply chain work well.
The most important thing is making sure everyone is on the same page about what the goal is.
This is called “Alignment”

If everyone knows what they’re working towards:
– it makes it easier to get the right people in the right roles,
– create processes that work, and
– pick the technology that will help.

𝗕𝘂𝘁, 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Different teams might NOT know how to
– work together, and
– the technology might not be used to its fullest potential.

So, our advice is to make sure that when you’re working on the supply chain, everyone knows what the goal is.
This is called “supply chain strategy.”

Once you have this figured out, it will be easier to make everything else work.

You can help create this clarity by talking to people in different teams.
Ask them what they think the goal should be.
Once you have a good idea of what everyone wants to achieve, you can work together to make it happen.

A clothing retailer realized that their supply chain strategy was focused on keeping costs low.
But they were missing out on sales because they didn’t have the latest fashion trends in stock.
By aligning on a new strategy that emphasized staying up-to-date with current fashion trends, they were able to increase sales and customer satisfaction.

An e-commerce company found that its supply chain strategy was focused on using only one warehouse for all its products. But this resulted in long shipping times for customers. By aligning on a new strategy that emphasized using many warehouses for faster shipping, they were able to improve customer satisfaction and increase sales.