Digital supply chains, Industrie 4.0 and smart manufacturing create new opportunities to flexibly support individualized demand and mass customization at scale. New approaches to operating factories and automating and synchronizing production and supply chain processes spur greater interest, but balancing digital expectations with core competencies is no easy task. Our insights, advice and tools make that task easier.
In evolving your supply chain manufacturing strategy, you’re challenged to orchestrate globally and execute locally. This requires increasing your visibility into operational performance through data; broadening performance measures beyond cost-cutting and incremental improvements; and creating a compatible culture, organization and digital environment.
The future of manufacturing connects factories that synchronize processes, data and human ingenuity with customer value. These bold visions of the future require new levels of supply chain agility and factory flexibility that previously were not possible. Gartner provides practical ways to get ahead of the curve and maximize manufacturing's potential.
The Hierarchy of Manufacturing Metrics helps to provide supply chain leaders responsible for manufacturing operations strategy and performance with a framework to identify, create and deploy a portfolio of metrics that provides a complete view of manufacturing’s performance.
Companies that operate complex supply chain networks designed to support growth and agile fulfillment should consider a network approach to managing capacity. Supply chain leaders focused on manufacturing operations strategy can use this research to extend capacity planning to the full network.
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