10 Challenges that a Durable Goods Supply Chains need to overcome
- Market forces, tariffs and regulatory requirements driving a need for improved resilience and ability
- Customer’s driving change in expectations, targets, and fulfilment times
- Increasing portfolio complexity balanced against customer service expectations
- Need for improved decision support capabilities and reduced process times
- Explosion of data sources and volumes
- Need to rapidly support business changes and innovation and respond to disruptions
- Pressure on profit margins & increasing total supply chain costs
- Increasing costs due to market Disruptions
- Increasing raw, WIP and FG Inventory
- Ability to reliably predict financial performance