Supply Chain Digital Magazine June 2026 | Page 151

SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES
Innovative strategies If a company fails to build visibility across its operations, it risks both company trust and also company stability. Through an increase in visibility, teams across the organisation can communicate better, leading to innovative strategy discussions and a more collaborative organisation.“ Being able to tell the story end to end across all of our stakeholders really makes a difference in not only building credibility and trust, but also making changes to the system,” Laís adds.
Through these discussions, supplier bases can be discussed with the complete information needed – is this supplier risk too much, or can it be solved with a new strategy or larger investment?
From this, companies can decide whether or not they want to diversify their supply chain – something which has been a major theme within organisations amid ongoing disruption.“ It’ s all about the trade offs,” Laís says.“ You can have this reliable supplier with this price, but on the other hand, if you change to maybe a more competitive price supplier, how does that impact your operations?”
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