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To navigate the future with confidence, manufacturing and distribution companies require a different set of skill, a new degree of agility and a more progressive mindset. This eBook provides you with a number of strategies to help you and your organisation be more prepared to mange supply chain disruption.

Inventory management must be an executive issue. This critical business function is too important to be the sole responsibility of the warehouse manager. SYSPRO’s Manufacturing Operations Management Solution incorporates an advanced, finite capacity-based, planning and scheduling (APS) system allowing you to quickly and accurately schedule while minimizing downtime.

Integrating the supply chain is critical to the success of a manufacturers if they want to be part of the fourth industrial revolution. In this chapter we will cover the benefits of an integrated supply chain, such as reduced costs, and also a few tips on successfully integrating your supply chain. K3 customer and world leading axle supplier, BPW, provide our case study for how K3 are helping UK manufacturers integrate the supply chain. While our leading practice looks into how global computer technology company, Dell, integrated its suppliers into the ordering process for a seamless configure to order approach.

In this chapter we’ll be covering the megatrends that could help keep your business competitive for the foreseeable future and will retain relevance with your customers. Our top tips include tying megatrend research and analysis into your strategic review and keeping an eye on the competition’s approach to megatrends. A meaty but easy to digest set of bullet points will cover a variety of megatrends in practice while our leading practice inspiration will again come from Industry 4.0 powerhouse, Rolls-Royce.

We look at the important terms, phrases and technologies you need to understand if your company is to be ready for Digital Supply Chain Networks.

This eBook explains in layman’s terms what is meant by a digital supply chain, where the technology has come from and how it is heading towards the digital supply network (although the word ‘digital’ will likely become assumed). More importantly, it aims to provide a clearer window on its implications for UK industry, pointing out the key areas on which manufacturing supply chain managers should focus their attention.