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Hello, my name is
Alan Braithwaite.
I'm going to talk to you about
managing complexity
in the supply chain.
But first, let me
introduce myself.
I'm the chairman of LCP
Consulting, Design Specialist,
Supply Chain and
Logistics Consultancy,
and I'm also a
visiting professor
at Cranfield School
of Management.
I've been working around
the supply chain for
the last 30 years.
I started in 1979
in consultancy,
and I've seen the whole topic,
and the subject area
develop from that time.
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The agenda I've put
together starts with
the concept of complexity,
what that means,
and how that idea has
developed over recent years,
and then to expand
that into how it
applies to business
and the supply chain.
From that, I'm
going to introduce
eight dimensions of
supply chain complexity,
which we've identified,
and which cover the
complete spectrum of how
complexity impacts
the company's operations
and its supply chain.
If you've got eight
dimensions of complexity,
you need to find out,
and discover how to measure
complexity against
those dimensions,
and I'll introduce some
tools and techniques which
enable you to understand the
implications of complexity,
and start to begin
to think about
the strategies that you
can adopt to mitigate.
One of the big strategies
or one of the big insights,
I should say that you can apply,
having measured complexity,
is to bring that together
into what we call cost-to-serve,
and I described that as
the complexity solver.
Having understood
the implications and
the impact of complexity and how
that fits against the
specific business,
I'll introduce
actions specifically,
that enable companies
to manage or
master complexity in
their supply chains.
Then I'll close by looking at
the bottom line benefits of
business of taking actions
to manage the supply chain.
