http://blog.kinaxis.com/2009/08/newest-supply-chain-risk-zombies/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.kinaxis.com/2009/08/newest-supply-chain-risk-zombies/comment-page-1/#comment-4062 Ron Freiberg Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:52:52 +0000 http://blog.kinaxis.com/?p=1951#comment-4062 Speaking exclusively from personal experience in the company I am currently with; the elimination of reliance on the so-called Zombie supplier was the cornerstone of our supply chain rebuild for the future, started literally the week the markets and financials crashed in October 2008. If we can remember back that far, we had just come out of a massive balloon economy and we had already targeted many of the zombie suppliers as those who could not support demand during the balloon also would be those that could not support a fast 30% to 40% renewal to normal business conditions whenever that occurred. These suppliers were targeted for removal with materials consolidated with those could support improved business conditions. The one good approach our company took was to not eliminate significant resource in the supply/purchasing groups over the last 10 months so we could accomplish this rebuild of the supply chain. This rebuild is not totally complete however we do have the new supply base up and running and are confident going forward that we can meet demand. The point really comes down to this; those that couldn't support you during the good times probably are those that will not lend support during economic expansion, they should have already been identified and be on the list of zombies. Speaking exclusively from personal experience in the company I am currently with; the elimination of reliance on the so-called Zombie supplier was the cornerstone of our supply chain rebuild for the future, started literally the week the markets and financials crashed in October 2008. If we can remember back that far, we had just come out of a massive balloon economy and we had already targeted many of the zombie suppliers as those who could not support demand during the balloon also would be those that could not support a fast 30% to 40% renewal to normal business conditions whenever that occurred. These suppliers were targeted for removal with materials consolidated with those could support improved business conditions. The one good approach our company took was to not eliminate significant resource in the supply/purchasing groups over the last 10 months so we could accomplish this rebuild of the supply chain. This rebuild is not totally complete however we do have the new supply base up and running and are confident going forward that we can meet demand. The point really comes down to this; those that couldn’t support you during the good times probably are those that will not lend support during economic expansion, they should have already been identified and be on the list of zombies.

]]> http://blog.kinaxis.com/2009/08/newest-supply-chain-risk-zombies/comment-page-1/#comment-4061 Mary Ulmer Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:52:44 +0000 http://blog.kinaxis.com/?p=1951#comment-4061 Very entertaining and informative Very entertaining and informative

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