Agile supply chain management

Agility has been a huge focus for organizations as

we enter unpredictable waters of the current and
future economy. Increasing customer
expectations, global business challenges and
digitization are greatly impacting how we market
and sell our products and provide a high level
customer experience through the supply chain.
And agility is critical to sustained business success.
However, as our supply chains have grown and
our global footprints have gotten larger,
complexity and rigid processes have made agility
increasingly difficult. As strategies change on a
dime, agility in the supply chain is needed,
however, to achieve agility we can’t just rip out
current systems and replace them with better but
similar functionality. We don’t have the 1+ years
to make that change!
Instead, it means looking to build agility into how
our existing supply chain operates, providing
flexibility on how we use current and future
partners and making quicker real-time decisions
on our supply chain processes.
When we look at agility in the supply chain, the
following areas are where successful
organizations focus in maintaining the flexibility
needed for an agile supply chain.