The first time I heard about supply chains was when I was working as a production planner at P&G Philippines in 1989. P&G’s top management had just reorganised the multinational consumer goods corporation’s operations worldwide, integrating manufacturing, purchasing, and logistics under one group: the Product Supply Organisation or PSO, for short. The aim of theContinue reading “What is a Supply Chain, Really?”
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Supply Chains are All About Flow
Supply chains are about flow: the movement of product from one stage to the next, from a starting point—a source—to an endpoint—a user. We call them product streams, demand flows, pipelines. But supply chains are hardly these as streams and pipelines imply a single fluid in motion. What flows in a supply chain isContinue reading “Supply Chains are All About Flow”