The company got obsessed with the product supply chain and distanced itself from its end customers.
The consumer was the boss of each and every capitalist enterprise, ruling over the entire product supply chain.
That means measuring and reducing the embodied energy of a product throughout the supply chain, from materials extraction to processing to transportation to product use and disposal.
Digital teams should ask themselves: what do we really know about product development, supply chain management, and operational efficiency?
Pattern-based analytics solutions are already being leveraged by some companies, giving them a much-needed competitive advantage in a high-risk environment by providing insights into customer-buying patterns to guide the product offering, supply chain planning and execution.
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Second, disruptive new business models are overwhelmingly likely to be hybrids that bring together at least two different innovations in areas that include product design, supply chain organization, retailing models, materials science research, manufacturing and organizational effectiveness.
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To align costs, they will focus on gross margin improvement through product simplification, enhanced supply chain strategies.
Not long ago I came across a white paper of sorts--presented as a wall chart--that describes a way of integrating product design into your supply chain.
It also implemented a new merchandising strategy to better meet customer demands, and it transformed its supply chain to improve product availability.
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Outsourcing of manufacturing, for instance, is feasible only if it can be separated from other supply chain activities: product development, branding, marketing, distribution, and after sales services.
As I discuss in The Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy, for instance, outsourcing of manufacturing is feasible only if it can be separated from other supply chain activities: product development, branding, marketing, distribution, and after sales services.
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From an investor perspective, if I had to look for a way to play this potential product category it would be through the supply chain.
Their efforts will benefit from both the financial support and expertise of the new owner, including supply-chain management, product development and logistics, says Mr. Babeau.
Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.
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Managing and maintaining an optimal harmony among what goes as input to the supply chain, what is made and how much goes as waste is critical to responsible supply chain and to good product stewardship.
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By supplying algorithms to balance all the variables of a supply chain, such as product prices, stock levels and customer demand, they are following in the footsteps of i2, the market leader in supply-chain management.
Dedicated to building exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo's business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution.
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Companies continue to increase the number of suppliers in their supply chain, consistent with the trend of product companies moving towards becoming brand owners and shedding captive manufacturing capacity.
In a recent conversation with a large client, I was very encouraged to learn that the responsible supply chain is becoming an integral part of product and packaging strategy for them and also for their competitors.
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Chasing diverse customer demands with an explosion of product variants dramatically increases total cost and causes volatility across the supply chain.
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"Our supply-chain guys have a responsibility to build that product at what it should cost, " he says.
Should investment be made in support of a new product direction, or in a digital inventory management system connected to the supply chain?
This is especially important when it comes to the supply chain, because in an ideal world as soon as a product is taken off the shelves and paid for, a new one is instantly manufactured or shipped to replace it.
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They also missed the costs and risks of an international supply chain, which is increasingly out of step with the shorter, faster product cycles.
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Working together with 3M and utilizing their outstanding design and supply chain capabilities will allow our QDEF technology to be widely deployed across all product segments and will ensure availability to all customers.
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The supply chain has become slow and over-committed, and stores are cluttered with too many product lines.
All of the product innovation in the world won't help a company if it can't also innovate its supply chain and speed of delivery.
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