Crimson & Co was delighted to be the guest speakers at Badenoch & Clark’s roundtable for 
Supply Chain leaders on Tuesday 25th May. The balance of supply and demand is central to supply chain management. In order to manage this, supply chain structures vary greatly depending on industry sector, company size, product type, supply base and complexity of product mix. Activities such as S&OP, vendor managed inventory, CPFR, new product implementation and 3rd party management are managed in very different ways from one company to another. We used our industry wide knowledge comparing and explaining these structures and differing processes to form the basis of our initial address.
The forum was then opened to the group to discuss what different supply chain structures mean to them, their organisation and the industry. We discussed issues such as:
- How consumer needs will shape the supply chain of the future
- The transferability of different methods
- Structure in respect of product type
- How the boundaries between supply chain, finance and procurement will blur in the future
