4C Associates White Papers

Creating supply chain resilience 

With ever-changing business scenario and external circumstances, the supply chains are under tremendous pressure to sustain required inventory levels, reduce operating costs and serve the customers, while maintaining profitability and surviving the competition.

Most businesses have their supply chains spanning across geographies providing flexibility and optimal utilisation of resources. However, this is impacted by several factors such as geo-political issues, trade agreements, labour strikes, etc. posing various challenges.

It is critical for businesses to incorporate resilience in their supply chains to respond quickly to changes through collaborative planning, increasing end-to-end visibility and increasing data sharing with stakeholders.

For more information on ways to make your supply chains resilient, please read our informative paper to gain more insights.

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Why diversifying your supply chain is a commercial imperative

Supply chain diversity refers to actively seeking and promoting a range of suppliers, vendors and partners that represent diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and characteristics.

Despite being overlooked, supply chain diversity has a proven record of improving business financial performance. According to research by Catalyst, inclusive organisations are twice as likely to meet or even exceed their financial targets.

First step to achieving diversity for the buyers and sellers is to conduct their initial assessment. This will entail suppliers to position themselves in a maturity model, identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses etc, while buyers to understand the range of sourcing approaches.

For more information on ways to diversify your supply chain, please read our informative paper to gain more insights.

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