{"id":375,"date":"2025-01-19T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supplychainai.ai\/?p=375"},"modified":"2025-01-19T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T03:32:17","slug":"mckinsey-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supplychainai.ai\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"McKinsey & Supply Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s one page is related with supply chain: Link<\/a><\/p>\n

No designated page for supply chain, but here are what related:<\/p>\n

Industries<\/strong> section -> Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure<\/p>\n

Capabilities<\/strong> section -> Operation<\/p>\n

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McKinsey’s selling points<\/h2>\n

To me, it covers three main perspectvies: 1. Build a more stuctural way to deliver outcome; 2. Digital transformation and optimizaion; 3.Empower.<\/p>\n

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  1. Use supply chain and manufacturing operations to create winning strategies<\/strong>\uff1a An interdisciplinary approach\u2014drawing insights from commercial, marketing, IT and digital, and product design\u2014helps clients to unlock next-level productivity gains.<\/li>\n
  2. Take a holistic<\/strong> approach to transformation to capture end-to-end value<\/strong>\uff1a An interdisciplinary approach\u2014drawing insights from commercial, marketing, IT and digital, and product design\u2014helps clients to unlock next-level productivity gains.<\/li>\n
  3. Transform manufacturing processes for better productivity<\/strong>\uff1a Encompass everything from digital diagnostics to plant transformations, order management, asset productivity, predictive maintenance, resource-production manufacturing, and lean warehousing.<\/li>\n
  4. Boost operational health by identifying skill gaps<\/strong> and building capabilities<\/strong>: Partner with clients to build foundational enablers and develop skills through capability building to create rapid and sustained impact.<\/li>\n
  5. Foster a quality culture<\/strong> to create competitive advantage: Help to meet and exceed customer expectations at every touchpoint through benchmarking, developing quality and compliance strategies, and remediation services across the entire value chain and product life cycle.<\/li>\n
  6. \n

    Leverage digital and autonomous<\/strong> supply chain opportunities: Supply chain 4.0 by incorporating IoT, robotics, and analytics. Removal of silos across the supply chain, resulting in lower costs, smaller inventories, and fewer lost sales.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The page of the link<\/a> also includes some informative articles created by McKinsey, below are something I found useful:<\/p>\n

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    1. Automation and the talent challenge in American manufacturing<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Summary<\/strong>: 2 Reasons for automation: insufficient laber supply and increasing wages. 2 Benefits:\u00a0 Reduce the number of low-skill roles (which is the hardest to find) and change the nature of workplace to a more technical one.<\/p>\n

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      2. Adopting AI at speed and scale: The 4IR push to stay competitive<\/a><\/p>\n

      Summary<\/strong>: Interestingly indentified AI as 4IR (the forth industrial revolution)<\/p>\n

      3. Autonomous supply chain planning for consumer goods companies<\/a><\/p>\n

      Summary: <\/strong>Autonomous supply chain planning can lead to: 4% UP revenue of up to 4 percent,\u00a0 a 20% decrease in inventory, and a 20% decrease\u00a0 in supply chain costs.<\/p>\n

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