Globalization’s impact on supply chains
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Michael Bittner has written another good article over at Technology Evaluation Centers entitled “Globalization Has a Profound Impact on the Supply Chain and Supporting Information Technology.”
We’re fortunate enough to work with many global operations and have seen the impact directly. One of the biggest challenges we see from this trend towards globalization is that companies feel like they’ve lost visibility and the ability to coordinate operations to meet customer and internal operating expectations.
To address this, companies (this applies to all companies in the “virtual enterprise” - from brand owners to contract manufacturers, suppliers, etc.) need to really focus on empowering their people to act. Doing so requires them to have the right information and tools to collaborate and quickly reach the the conclusions. Centralized, batch-type decision making just doesn’t scale in such a distributed environment. And, as noted above, global organizations today are virtual - they include other companies that specialize in various aspects of the value and supply chain.
