Articles & Case study
“Almost all Supply Chain professionals (88%) have a positive outlook on their career, and most (85%) would recommend this field as a path for others.” ASCM 2020 According to the new study from the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) the profession
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In this health and economic crisis’ period, optimizing production requires; How to optimize production and distribution capacity in a crisis period? We could see that social distancing measures reduce the capacity of operations. Understanding and measuring current and future industrial
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Yesterday I posted an introductory article on resilience and agility to face the new normal of the post Coronavirus pandemic. (article available here) This new normal will come upon us. As mentioned, it will change many behaviors both economic and
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!! Normality Canceled !! The action taken now to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus on the supply chains must also strengthen the resilience of organizations in the face of inevitable and unforeseeable future shocks. Even though the immediate human
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Let’s talk about time buffer. A few days ago I had an appointment with a client for an important meeting at 9am, in a provincial city with heavy traffic. The journey in normal time should take 20mn, I decide to
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Today, the customer’s demand is more complicated to manage. Complex requirements and delivery issues require an understanding of the Supply Chain concepts and processes. However, when we discuss with the businesses involved in Supply Chain Management (and even outside the
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As part of its expansion, AGILEA’s team participates in the TOCICO conference. TOCICO is a certification body. And it annually offers a review of case studies and new practices associated with The Theory of Constraints (TOC). AGILEA had the honor
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Stakes Make a complete performance diagnosis of the company’s activities Identify the causes of failure Propose a roadmap and improvement projects Performance Diagnosis Context Industrial site of 130 people of an international group in the medical devices sector Products in
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He/She is now almost essential in the organization chart of our companies, whether industrial, distribution, retail… However, when we ask people to explain the role of their company’s Supply Chain Manager (SCM), the vacuum quickly emerges or – conversely –
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What business has never faced a supply disruption? What enterprise has never had a machine downtime? Has never had a shortage to manage? Who has never tried to forecast customer demand? Who has never tried to improve the reliability of
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