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Aligning Plants and Partners for Agile Supply Chains
In this episode, host Christine Barnhart sits down with Philip Vervloesem, Chief Commercial & Markets Officer at OMP, to discuss supply chain agility. Despite the need for connected planning as a strategic approach for achieving supply chain orchestration, most brands today struggle to create realistic and actionable supply plans that include their external manufacturers because their supply networks operate in a void or a black box (see white paper that speaks to this).
In this episode, we cover:
- Disconnected planning processes: traditional planning stops at the boundaries of a manufacturer’s own operations, failing to integrate external manufacturing capacity and supply constraints into building a realistic and executable plan, leading to multiple rounds of unnecessary back-and-forth down the road.
- Limited visibility and outdated data: simply having access to supplier data through manual entry into P2P portals, infrequent batch EDI transactions or weekly spreadsheet uploads does not provide the insights necessary for collaborative and intelligent decision-making.
- Lack of collaborative and decision-centric planning: without a mechanism to collaborate on forecast, capacity, and inventory position data, manufacturers and their external partners cannot proactively manage supply variation and disruptions. We will also go into the meaning of data centric in the context of supply chain.
- Rigid, transactional supplier relationships: brands and OEMs that keep their suppliers at arm’s length instead of enabling a more collaborative and integrated approach miss out on opportunities to sense and predict supply variation, and make proactive adjustments. We will go over some of the common huddles, such as shifting from a transactional relationship to a strategic partnership.
Tune in for an engaging conversation that sheds light on integrating the planning process across internal functions and external partners.
Philip Vervloesem
Chief Commercial & Markets Officer, OMP
Philip Vervloesem is Chief Commercial & Markets Officer at OMP, where he leads global commercial strategy and oversees U.S. operations. With over 20 years of experience in digital supply chain transformation, he has helped Fortune 500 companies across industries optimize planning and performance. Philip is a frequent speaker on AI, agility, and sustainable supply chain innovation.
Christine Barnhart
Chief Industry & Ecosystem Officer |
Nulogy
As Nulogy’s Chief Industry and Ecosystem Officer, Christine leverages her thought leadership and domain expertise to play a pivotal role in the way Nulogy speaks to the market and delivers customer value. Under Christine’s guidance, Nulogy continues to shape and educate the market around the emerging space of Multi-Enterprise Collaboration.
