Content Being Accessed: White Paper: Don't Re-Plan, Just Execute: Making Supply Chain Plans Work with Collaborative Execution

Manufacturing business models have changed. Static, linear supply chains serving vertically integrated manufacturers have been replaced by dynamic trading networks supporting increasingly outsourced, global businesses. With this change has come increased volatility-in supplies, in customer demand, and even in product lines, as life cycles shorten and margin windows narrow. How can you plan in this chaotic environment? And, once plans are made, how can you most effectively implement them-plus respond intelligently when the playing field shifts?