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Good supply chain solutions look simplistic ‘in hindsight’.
I have been helping companies move their supply chain from forecast-driven to demand-driven. A remark I have often heard across companies is that the proposed solution looks too simple. How will it achieve the huge benefits it is expected to deliver?
That’s the beauty of good supply chain solutions. Once you implement it, it looks quite simple in hindsight. For example, a simple change in stock deployment policy can improve product availability and its freshness in a very short span of time. A small change in the production scheduling process can result in immediate reduction in finished goods inventory while improving product availability at the same time.
These are small changes, but well-conceived within the overall framework of Demand Driven Supply Chains.
If the change doesn’t look simple in hindsight, It is probably not a great solution.