- Does your organization have procedures in place to ensure that all transport conveyances used for transportation of cargo within its supply chain are capable of being effectively secured?
- What impact does your ability to manage supply chain risk have on protecting your brand, ensuring margins, moving cash, and generating revenue to assure long term growth?
- Do the practices, processes, or systems that supply chain stakeholders use to exchange transaction information or transaction histories include or have the ability to include IoT level data?
- Will a particular program enable the people in your organization to make significantly better decisions in less time with respect to inventory and supply chain flexibility?
- How do you know it is time to improve your organizations performance management in supply chain and operations?
- What is your organization doing to develop continuous improvement strategies addressing climate change and sustainability in its supply chain practices?
- How do you make sure that your operations strategy addresses a wide range of complex issues as supply chain positioning, market opportunities and internal capabilities?
- How do you use the historical data to get a better demand and supply chain planning process?
- What are your organizations supply chain professionals planning in order to make sure processes are solid and the right technology is utilized for maximum success?
- Who is to possess a deeper understanding of supply chain design, planning and operations necessary to manage risk in a more integrated, centralized and intricate environment?
- What are the biggest obstacles and challenges preventing your organization from more effectively engaging and committing to supply chain and procurement sustainability?
- How are you instrumenting a data supply chain that can cover operations, processes, intelligent machines, and customer interactions across all locations and points of business globally?
- How do you know supply chain risk has been addressed?
- How do you simplify the supply chain for the functions that have low retention?
- How do you improve inventory targets across the supply chain at a time of increased product and supply chain complexity?
- How do you use supply chain transparency to make more informed operational decisions?
- How do you consider, promote and ensure business integrity in all supply chain interactions internally and across the supply chain ecosystem?
- Is every operations team potentially affected by a supply chain disruption trained to support transparency creation, solution development or implementation?
- Is your supply chain maximizing the cost savings opportunities that exist in todays volatile global environment by leveraging suppliers resources and getting cost price breakdowns?
- Have you developed a system of metrics for developing your internal supply chain management capabilities as well as for evolving a lean supplier network?
- What are the influential organizational factors in the supply chain management activities for diffusion of environmental and social sustainability practices?
- How do you integrate and manage supply chain assets and processes to operate at peak performance?
- How do you improve sales and operations planning while achieving supply chain flexibility?
- How can the security of the supply chain for container transport be improved by sharing security relevant information by the actors of that supply chain?
- What international capabilities must be developed in a global supply chain in order to promote customer satisfaction, profitability and competitive advantage?
- How do you integrate supply chain partners into your product development process?
- What needs to be done to build trust with your stakeholders and so boost security and safety for your employees, customers, supply chain and the local communities in which you operate?
- How do you update and share your data with your key supply chain stakeholders?
- What are the costs, benefits and feasibility of implementing an enhanced product tracing system for each of the persons in the supply chain for various segments of the food industry?
- How do you work within inflationary supply chain costs to minimise wastage in areas of overspend?
- How do you know your supply chain is really ethical?
- How do you make the whole supply chain sustainable and circular?
- How do you maximize the capabilities of your existing routing, mapping and supply chain management investments?
- How do you improve your modelling for supply chain risk to include analysis of the wider degree of correlation, interconnected risks and macro economic trends?
- How do you shift your supply chain dependencies across geographies, and what are the business and economic tradeoffs?
- What are the delivery or transportation methods in the supply chain and are there any associated risks, including products or services having high transport intensity?
- Does your supply chain minimize the amount of touches and the touch time in supply chain transactions, so as to reduce the number of potential failure points?
- How do you ensure that the supply chain is compliant?
- How do you leverage real time analytics to enable supply chain improvement?
- How do you integrate triple bottom line sustainability thinking into supply chain design?
- How do you manage the complexities associated with supply chain sustainability?
- How do you get further down a supply chain and get ownership of the process?
- How do you develop methods to improve the resilience of your supply chain network?
- How do you help others up and down the supply chain engage better with the stakeholders?
- How do you collect, store, and update the necessary data for supply chain measures?
- Do you understand how packaging is used and disposed at all stages of your supply chain and how it looks when it reaches the end user and what happens when in the resource recovery system?
- How do you engage with your supply chain partners to deliver transparency and traceability?
- How do you improve the efficiency of your supply chain without exposing yourselves to excessive risk?
- How do you prepare your supply chain for future growth?
- How do you take advantage of decentralization and shorter supply chain opportunities?
- How do you build supply chain resilience to handle low frequency, high consequence disruptions?
- How do you provide KPI scorecards for your internal and supply chain partners?
- How do you identify human rights and supply chain risks?
- How do you keep humans in the supply chain and eliminate human error?
- How do you implement sustainable supply chain innovations?
- How do you involve your supply chain partners in delivering operational excellence?
- How do you prepare for a supply chain loss?
- How do you verify a supply chain partner?
- Do you expect your suppliers to address the information security risks connected with use of information and communications technology services and product supply chains?
- How do you use IoT to get closer to customers or increase efficiency in your manufacturing operations or supply chain?
- How does your organization optimize links between customers, focal companies, and suppliers to align sustainable productions targets across international supply chains?
- Do adequate security measures extend to your organizations supply chain, corporate data that is held externally and corporate systems that are operated by third parties?
- Is there sufficient transparency into how your cloud provider operates its services – including service management practices, hiring policies, supply chain, data center facilities?
- How do you ensure supply contracts enhance value at each link in the chain?
- How do you manage product supply issues on an exception basis?
- How do you identify and respond to risks in your manufacturing process and supply chain?
- What is the effect of environmental practices and regulations on your supply chains and how do supply chains impact the environment in the short run and long run?
- How do you adapt your core processes given the changes to customer behaviour and supply chain?
- How do you identify hotspots of negative environmental impact across your product supply chain?
- How do you know if an analytical modeling approach is appropriate for optimizing your supply chain?
- How do you ensure an ethical and transparent supply chain?
- How do you better manage your reverse supply chain?
- How do you monitor what happens to your data over a diverse cloud based supply chain?
- How do you identify your supply chains weak links?
- How do you practically manage human rights in your supply chains?
- How do you engage with your customers to implement the lean supply chain?
- How do you communicate your requirements regarding sustainability upstream the supply chain?
- How do you communicate and engage with your stakeholders for a better supply chain/procurement strategy execution?
- How do you keep track of all the technologies that are available to supply chains?
- How do you mitigate IP risks of a digital, decentralized supply chain?
- How do you eliminate unnecessary touchpoints within your supply chain, including vendor deliveries?
- How do you work as a value chain to create joint services that serve the end customer?
- Does your organization have a clear strategy in place to capture new and emerging business opportunities, and does your organizational structure support that strategy?
- Does your organization have written and verifiable processes for the screening of new business partners, beyond financial soundness issues, to include security indicators?
- Does your organization have a process for identifying and prioritizing workforce risks and opportunities in your organizations direct operations/supply chain?
- How many suppliers have been able to demonstrate very good sustainability performance on the basis of the information in supplier self assessments, or during on site visits and audits?
- Do you have procedures for verifying the departing cargo against purchase orders or delivery orders, to ensure the correct items and quantities are being shipped?
- How do you advance the use of more cost effective life cycle based tools that produce easy to understand outcomes to help inform business decisions?
- How do you ensure your suppliers have responsible environmental and social practices?
- How do you evaluate how well changes to the purchasing process have been implemented?
- Are your operations and business responsiveness constrained by the capabilities of the logistics service providers or transportation partners you work with?
- How do you know what a department or organization is planning to procure?
- What security considerations have been established for selecting and screening carriers that are providing transportation services for outgoing shipments?
- How do you integrate Omnichannel demand management without disrupting your business process?
- How do you structure resources and processes to mitigate your organizations risk exposure?
- How do you measure the impact or influence of corporate sustainability strategy implementation?
- How do you use data that comes from external organizations?
- How do you select, collect, align, and integrate data and information for tracking daily operations?
- How do you help leadership teams work together more effectively?
- How do you identify non value adding activities and what to focus on?
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom from Nizam College at Hyderabad Public School
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Thank you so much for sharing these Gerardus, in my opinion, they are invaluable! 😊