There’s a Reason It’s Called a Supply Chain
The analogy is ubiquitous, but the image of a chain being only as strong as its weakest link never gets old, and it’s never more true than when applied to the supply chains operating in modern business. Supply chain management has always been an obvious focus for companies looking to trim costs and improve business output, but in the modern era, optimising a supply chain has definitely become specialist expertise.
Not only do the huge diversity of business tools and preferences present a challenging morass for modern business to wade through in pursuit of optimised supply chain solutions, but inefficiencies in such solutions also have an immediate and direct cost to the company.
The Value of a Supply Chain Specialist
Very few of us would be equipped to strip open a laptop or perform surgery if we were called upon to do so, simply because it is not our expertise and those are specialised tasks. None of us can be expected to be fundis on every single aspect of business, but there’s a tendency to assume that because one is familiar with one’s company (or the employer’s company), that supply chain design and management should be a logical and easy exercise.
Logical it certainly needs to be, but easy it is not! The businesses that will not only survive, but grow into the future, are those who are now insisting upon optimisation of all aspects of their operations. With the supply chain being such a fundamental component for successful, profitable trade, supply chain specialists are imperative to realise an optimal supply chain operating in a global marketplace.
Many companies also operate with unseen losses hidden in poor , in its design and practice. One of the principal benefits of a supply chain specialist is that they know where to look. In other words, if there’s a better way of doing it－a route that presents greater productivity, greater cost-effectiveness, higher profits, or greater client satisfaction (and preferably all four), the experienced supply chain specialist will distil it. More than that, the best supply chain management supply chain specialists will be able to formulate it and measure it against known performance metrics of the company, to demonstrate savings, effectiveness, and improved performance.
Inhance Has Become a Supply Chain Specialist Through Saving Our Clients
One of the unique attributes of Inhance is that we insist on demonstrating our cost saving initiatives on every project. In other words, our clients pay for our specialist expertise, because they can see throughout our process how effectively we illuminate latent savings, all the while keeping the costs of any restructuring to a minimum. We’re not about guessing at your expense, we’re about absolute efficiencies and the resultant cost savings.
Inhance has clients across the globe, and we’ve managed to demonstrate our value to every single one of them. We like being of service, and we journey with our clients in pursuit of tangible improvements and savings. Contact us to evaluate your supply chain structure, to identify the areas of improvement.
