Poll on the type of delivery model you plan to adopt for your Supply Chain applications
How is your organization adapting to the current economic environment ? Tightened budgets across the board are making organizations wary about not only their organization’s financial viability but also their suppliers and competitors.
But most companies are cautiously progressing towards application investment with lots of options /variations, Capitalize the investment in the application vs. Expense, Utilization of IT resources vs. placing the burden of implementation and ongoing management of the application on third party, Customize and interconnect solutions vs. configure and use as OOTB, do the same for less money vs. more for the same price.
Participate in our on-going series of Supply Chain polls to gauge the trend across the industry in order to provide organizations with focus areas as they embark on streamlining their supply chains.
Comments
How do I participate in this poll?
Posted by: Amit Paranjape | March 5, 2009 12:13 PM
Hi Amit, thanks for your interest. Log on to our blog - http://www.infosysblogs.com/supply-chain. On the right hand side of this page, you will see the poll.
Posted by: Raj | March 5, 2009 3:48 PM
Traditionally, marketing, distribution, planning, manufacturing, and the purchasing organizations along the supply chain operated independently. These organizations have their own objectives and these are often conflicting. Marketing's objective of high customer service and maximum sales dollars conflict with manufacturing and distribution goals. Many manufacturing operations are designed to maximize throughput and lower costs with little consideration for the impact on inventory levels and distribution capabilities. Purchasing contracts are often negotiated with very little information beyond historical buying patterns. The result of these factors is that there is not a single, integrated plan for the organization---there were as many plans as businesses. Clearly, there is a need for a mechanism through which these different functions can be integrated together. Supply chain management is a strategy through which such an integration can be achieved.
Posted by: Liza | March 7, 2009 7:04 AM