{"id":20371,"date":"2016-03-08T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisestrategies.com\/?p=20371"},"modified":"2016-05-26T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:46:37","slug":"lesson-4-working-out-loud-in-the-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisestrategies.com\/2016\/03\/08\/lesson-4-working-out-loud-in-the-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 4: Working Out Loud in a Responsive Supply Chain Network"},"content":{"rendered":"
Supply Chain<\/strong> is the sequence of processes, people, activities and resources involved moving a product from supplier to customer.<\/em><\/p>\n A 2000 strong Supply Chain team had collective expertise at each stage from: Procurement, Production, Distribution, Sales and Marketing — to the all important Customers, at the end of the supply chain. Specifically Supply Planners, Demand Forecasters, Site Schedulers, Customer Services and Logistics were not sharing information but working in deep\u00a0team silos.<\/p>\n The Supply Chain needed a collaboration tool that encouraged peer to peer support and would also provide a central communication forum that linked to their private Team Sites. The diverse, large team spread across geographies and time zones but had collective goals – with different short term challenges. They needed to find a way to collaborate and keep working as one team, to get the best out of collective experiences that kept product wastage minimal, costs low and maintain the highest quality standards.<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Hundreds of random emails and phone call<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Team Sites for storing Excel, PowerPoint, Word documents and agendas<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Weekly escalation meetings<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Monthly and quarterly meetings focused mainly on performance<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Shared programme updates<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Shared specific issues within the Supply Chain, particularly 3rd party vendor relationships, production downtime issues, stock shortages and inventory reduction targets<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Shared achievements and milestones<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Questions answered quickly by a myriad of international subject matter experts<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Improved working across time zones<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>ESN machine-based translation of real-time conversations into 40 languages helped to break down barriers<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Connection with a broader global team that broke down silos across the Supply Planners, Demand Forecasters, Site Schedulers, Customer Service and Logistics who were previously not sharing information<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Issues resolved faster that might ultimately of increased the end product costs if delayed<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Learning from and networking with others<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Increased sense of identity and culture around the Supply Chain<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Identified good practices<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Anytime anywhere any place access to the ESN from personal mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Shared international experiences<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Increased sense of ownership of Supply Chain issues, particularly 3rd party vendor relationships, production downtime issues, stock shortages and inventory reduction targets<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>New staff \u201cup to speed\u201d faster by connecting with those more experienced<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Improved reporting standards<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Greater awareness of Supply Chain know-how and tacit knowledge<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Encouraged good practices and new ways of working across the business<\/p>\n –<\/strong><\/span>Improved knowledge and camaraderie at weekly, monthly and regional meetings<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’transparent’ position=’center’ color=” thickness=’10’ up=” down=”]<\/p>\n [vc_separator type=’transparent’ position=’center’ color=” thickness=’2′ up=” down=”]<\/p>\n Working Out Loud in A Network decreases email dependency by removing the limits of a typical lateral, two-dimensional command and control structure.What were the problems that needed to be fixed?<\/h3>\n
How would you have fixed it in the past, without enterprise social networking (ESN)?<\/h3>\n
What did Working Out Loud on ESN help achieve, that wasn\u2019t possible before?<\/h3>\n
After deploying ESN, what value-add outcomes were achieved?<\/h3>\n
What were the benefits of this to the people involved and to the company?<\/h3>\n
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