Can your supply chain be both resilient and efficient?
Resilience and efficiency of supply chains should no longer be viewed as competing goals but rather as complementary aspects of a well-calibrated supply chain management strategy....
Ralf W. Seifert is Professor of Operations Management at IMD and co-author of The Digital Supply Chain Challenge: Breaking Through. He directs IMD’s Strategic Supply Chain Leadership (SSCL) program, which addresses both traditional supply chain strategy and implementation issues as well as digitalization trends and the impact of new technologies.
January 31, 2025 • by Anna Timonina-Farkas, Ralf W. Seifert in Supply chain • 6 min read
Resilience and efficiency of supply chains should no longer be viewed as competing goals but rather as complementary aspects of a well-calibrated supply chain management strategy....
December 9, 2024 • by Ralf W. Seifert, Vasilis Karamalegos in Supply chain • 8 min read
Manufacturers must adopt a unified strategy across different divisions if they are to extract the full value of Industry 4.0. ...
August 5, 2024 • by Ralf W. Seifert, Richard Markoff, Matthew Spooner in Strategy • 6 min read
Demand Planning Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are frequently criticized for being too complex or irrelevant. However, an emerging approach is gaining popularity: evaluating the effectiveness of the planning process itself, rather than...
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