SupplyChain Magazine December 2016 | Page 63

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product delivered ,” he explains . “ We don ’ t have to restructure hundreds of people and thousands of man hours to restructure a module in our ERP . We can grab data from a cloud , bring it down , play with it , send it back up and continue the day to day running of the business .”
Even a matter of days in the supply chain can feel like a lifetime . Trying to pin down what ECCO will look like in five years will always be a cautious prediction ; though due to the strength of the systems Phillips and his team have developed , the future certainly looks bright . Continuously improving its supply chain will be central to wherever the company ’ s next big growth drive occurs . Driving value while maintaining flexibility in the supply chain will be crucial to this growth , Phillips concludes sg . ecco . com 63