SUPPLY CHAIN TACTICS
Charting Sustainable Success with Agile and Resilient Supply Chains
Proactive monitoring and engagement with your supply chain enables swift adaptation to changes in circumstances while maintaining efficiency and balancing short-term tactical needs with long-term sustainability goals.
Breaking content into two primary categories:
- Vulnerabilities
- Opportunities
Presenting internal and external factors within each category.
Vulnerabilities – Potentials For Risk / Consequences
- Internal
- Inefficiencies in operations
- Concentration risk, single source suppliers
- Inventory management issues
- External
- Geopolitical environments
- Socio-economic fluctuations
- Ethical labor practices
- Partners’ resiliency
- Environmental – ecological
- Climate change
- Natural disasters
- Biodiversity loss
- Resource depletion
- Pollution – air, water
- Land degradation
Opportunities – Tactics For Sustainability / Profitability
- Internal
- Diversify supplier/vendor relationships
- Process optimization
- Control capacity risk(s)
- Adopt & integrate technology – software, automation, analytics , & other tools
- Social & ecological responsibility
- Innovation
- External
- Collaboration, communication
- Transparency
- Environmental – ecological
- Renewable energy
- Green initiatives – technologies, infrastructure, &/or transportation
- Ecosystem restoration
- Environmental stewardship
For in-depth explorations into the tactics driving sustainability & profitability through supply chain management, explore expanded and enhanced content on the ‘Resources‘ pages:
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- Blogs
- Documentation (FAQs, How To Guides, Case Studies, & Technical References)
- Tutorials
- Tech & Gear
