Applying Supply Chain Thinking in Operational Turnarounds

How can you leverage supply chain principals to improve business performance and achieve operational turnarounds?

In my last post, “Supply Chain Performance – a lead indicator for business success”, I noted that Supply Chain Management is all about optimising activities across various partners, to satisfy a customer’s needs in the most effective and efficient way. I also provided a few characteristics and reasons for optimal and underperforming supply chains.

In my experience, supply chain metrices are generally good lead indicators of financial performance. The question is how to leverage the concept of Supply Chain Management to effect business improvements and operational turnarounds?

Supply Chain Performance – A Lead Indicator For Business Success

Supply Chain Performance is a good, early indication of your business’ overall success and long term sustainability.

What makes a successful supply chain? How do you know if your supply chain is underperforming? In this blog and my next post, I’ll endeavour to answer these questions.

Taking Costs Out Of A Business Without Sabotaging It – Part 2

My last blog highlighted a real-life case study to show ways of looking under the covers for the opportunities to improve margins and cash flow. To refresh yourself on the issues we discovered in this business, click here: Taking Costs Out Of A Business Without Sabotaging It. Now, I’d like to step through the corrective [...]

Taking Costs Out Of A Business Without Sabotaging It

The CEO and Board rely on the CFO’s advice and guidance, but this could lead to trouble unless the CFO has proactively reviewed the business processes to ensure the systems they rely on are sound. Here are some basic steps a CFO must take to know and control their business…