Today's Enterprise Applications are Often Out-of-Sync with Reality

[Adrienne Selko]

A reader comments:

Re: Planning The Factory of the Future

The trends you discuss are working in combination to challenge supply chain management with global operations, multiple partners, complex processes and products, short product lifecycles and demanding consumers.

This requires integration, on a global basis, between functions and entities like never before.

Adaptability and flexibility become key as you try to navigate the NPI process and a high-mix manufacturing model as the consumer market wants ever more choices.

While I believe companies are becoming wise to the need for a different approach to Supply Chain Management, the technology to enable this change is the fundamental stumbling block.

While traditional supply chain planning (SCP) solutions have made tremendous strides in improving planning, the "real world" challenges of highly volatile demand, shorter product life cycles, unexpected supply disruptions and complex outsourcing & supplier relationships are driving rapid change and increased complexity in supply chain operations. The result is that today's enterprise applications are often out-of-sync with reality and can't support the level of agility that companies need today or in the future.

This is actually the theme of one of our recent white papers "Why you need to re-evaluate your approach to supply chain planning." The paper highlights the key capabilities that a "factory of the future" needs (including enterprise-wide supply chain visibility, alerting, what-if anal ysis and scorecarding.)

You can read more about this at http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com

R. Littleson
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[Stephen]

As the previous respondent pointed out, dealing with these growing challenges—a geographically dispersed supplier base, increasing product complexity, and dynamic customer demands—will require a different approach than what worked well in the past. And there are examples to follow. Corporations like Toyota, Wal-Mart, and a number of others have adopted lean in a way that makes them more dynamically stable. Because of this, they continue creating strong, steady, measurable value for their corporations and their customers even during the extreme challenges the business world faces today.

[greenbelt01]

Friends,

Going on discussion is very wonderful that I agree that today's enterprice application are often out of syncronise with our reality.In the world it is coming up applications to be suffer our real life also.and Enterprice applications is coming on all the categries and industries.Its really good that the applications affects our realities also.

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