Supply Chain Planning

Feel like your supply chain can never get ahead? Stuck in an endless loop of emergencies, trying to prevent out-of-stocks, OTIF fines and upset retailers? This white paper explores the disconnects across people, processes and systems that keep supply chain teams in constant firefighting mode, even before the COVID-19 crisis.

Just five short months ago, the consumer goods industry was focused on building a supply chain to support the omnichannel era, focusing on four key areas: demand planning, fulfillment, manufacturing, and last-mile delivery. However, since then the industry has been flipped on its head.

Brands can set the foundation they need to deliver on consumer expectations by adhering to three fundamental rules.

The companies have developed a digital marketplace that lets sellers showcase their products and services, to better support supply chain disruptions.

Panasonic’s recent equity investment in Blue Yonder gives it a 20% minority ownership stake and one seat on the Blue Yonder board of directors.

The scale and breadth of the current challenges can seem overwhelming, but business leaders do not have the luxury of time in developing a response. Societies need their help managing the immediate emergency.