In: Operations Management
Mention A Company with the Best Supply Chain Management
Practice. How did they achieve a strategic fit,
Lean or Agile and why do you think they fall under lean or
agile.
Unilever - A company e with the best supply chain management practice. Unilever is the world's 3rd consumers goods company. It is a British - Dutch company.
Unilever is having the best supply chain management practices in its organisation as the consumers of its products are in all over the globe and it is possible only because of the the effective strategies and best supply chain management practices of the company.
Unilever focused on restructuring its supply chain management time to time according to the changing market trends and inclusion of Innovation. Company also focus on technology enhancement, global procurement processes, supply chain executives and suppliers involvement in its operations of supply chain management. Unilever sources RWA materials from over 10, 000 suppliers from all over the world. Effective and efficient global strategy of the company along with the positive collaboration with its supply chain partners by adopting enhanced technologies make it possible to the company to have high profit and have effective and best supply chain management practices all over the globe.
RFID technology to track products was firstly introduced in Unilever. The company is also first in researching Blockchain in tracking products and also manage the incredible complex supply chain of the company.
Unilever fall under agile as Unilever is highly flexible as it is being enough able to quickly adapt the changing situation. It adapt the changing technologies, external changes and customers demand.