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as well as provide forward visibility to support upside and downside supply capability . This will ensure sustained excellence for service to our customers while improving cost , networking and capital productivity .
“ Last and most importantly , we intend to achieve an externally benchmarked first quartile supply chain performance , making our supply chain a competitive advantage for our company .”
Within the next year , Arxada is going to work on four things .
“ We ’ re implementing a fit-for-purpose end-to-end supply chain planning tool , that will enable us to continue the journey of improving networking , capital cost and market service level or customer service level going forward ,” says Willis .
The company is going to improve its endto-end synchronisation , using tools to make sure that its suppliers and customers are all working on the same base plans .
“ We ’ re going to work on forward visibility using leading indicators ,” Willis adds . “ There are a few of our products that tend to lead the drop and the recovery . We ’ re using those as bellwethers to understand what the general economy is going to do .”
Arxada is going to be more proactive in staffing up , as well as down , to make sure they are meeting their objectives and maintaining good supply to the market .
“ Last but not least , we are going to achieve first quartile supply chain capability and performance and the corresponding KPIs associated with that .” 142 December 2023