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The biggest challenge in his role at the moment is managing his team ’ s time .
“ Just like every leader , the big challenge is balancing short-term delivery versus longterm capability and building a property and excelling team over time . It ’ s the balance between now and the future .”
Willis is most proud of the team he has built .
“ I ’ ve been in a few transformative roles over my career , but I think the one I ’ m most proud of is the last year , my first year at Arxada , where we have transformed the supply chain and generated huge business improvements while building a winning culture and a winning team .”
Arxada ’ s Evolution : Transforming supply chains with the right people , process and tools Willis is improving end-to-end synchronisation and collaboration capabilities from customers through to suppliers , despite limited planning tool capabilities .
“ We have a weekly process , where we have a cross-functional team from the commercial , manufacturing , supply chain , and procurement ,” Willis says . “ We are all working off the same set of books and numbers and plans , to make sure they ’ re all aligned .”
One of Willis ’ next steps is getting tools that will help the team do just that .
Three companies were brought together to make Arxada and , as a result , they have three different ERP systems , manufacturing networks and most important , workcultures . The team uses core ERP to complete its planning .
“ We need to evolve and start doing our planning using modern tools . But that is in the future , not today . We decided to start with people and processes and follow with tools . Our processes have improved dramatically . Our team ’ s capabilities have improved dramatically . Now we ’ re going to start working on tools and digital enablement .”
Willis is improving forward visibility to enable upside and downside supply
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