Master the six critical phases of your supply chain. From managing your product lifecycle to streamlining operations, we cover what it takes to get your products to the shelf.
The planning phase: Planning your supply chain is the first step to seamlessly managing your inventory and product life cycle in order to balance quality, product availability, customer loyalty, and healthy margins.
The sourcing phase: Creating an agile supply chain starts with your sourcing practices and supplier relationship management. Stronger relationships with vendors can lead to better prices, better planning, and less risk.
The procurement phase: By leveraging the procurement process as a competitive advantage, businesses can save time, money, and resources.
The make phase: From master production schedules, quality management systems, and ISO certification — here's how to optimize the make phase of your supply chain.
The delivery phase: The delivery phase of the supply chain is critical for retailers to nail. Here's how to exceed customer expectations, while keeping delivery costs down.
The return phase: Reverse logistics can have a profound impact on revenue by improving customer satisfaction, extracting as much value as possible from returned items, and by protecting profit margins.