Thomas Buchbach

What is really important for successful SCM training

Establish benefits and practical relevance, bring topics into the heart, generate catchwords in the mind and hold the attention of participants during the training. You have no doubt experienced the situation yourself: too many topics are chosen for a training program. It is often not clear how exactly participants should benefit. Objectives and contents are […]

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Individual coaching is essential during roll-out projects

Including local top management and consideration of local characteristic features are essentials for a successful roll-out of supply chain processes. But to avoid a long way through a value of tears, an individual training and coaching program for key players in the process is a prerequisite for immediate success. For sure, you are familiar with

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Available-to-Promise (ATP) – Vision or ultimate in supply chain performance?

Supplier’s reliability is not a great challenge for goods on stock. But if the material is not yet produced, raw materials are not at hand, capacity is limited and competing orders are coming in – it’s hard to know what to do. An integrated planning environment generates a lot of benefits for supply chain processes.

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Strongheaded KPI tracking of supply chain

To achieve long-term sustainability in processes, it is necessary to track KPIs consequently, followed by identification of root-causes for deviations and definition of appropriate actions to improve process quality. Current projects show some similarities regarding KPIs: initially KPIs are defined and monitored. Suddenly reasons arise, why the goal is seemingly set too high and unreachable.

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Successful in the selective luxury cosmetics segment

Strictly targeting to service level management, applying rule based demand planning, and consequent checking of allocated quantities during order entry are the basis to achieve customer service levels beyond 98%. At present, Asia is #1 focus market for European Companies in the luxury cosmetics segment. Especially, supply chains are faced by huge challenges due to

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