MESA Smart Manufacturing Community: Smart Connected Supply Chain

Description

Come share your experiences, stories, questions, and what you have learned in a safe, non-commercial environment. We seek to understand the state-of-the market, understand what companies have done that has or has not worked, documenting questions that MESA and the community can help answer. Overall, the goal is to accelerate each participant’s learning and progress toward Smart Manufacturing. 

Topic:  Pragmatic Considerations for Revamping Supply Chains

What do you need to keep in view as the company considers improving or revamping its supply chain? Supply chain organizations and ecosystems have typically evolved over years, and are tightly intertwined. Last year, we discussed whether to transform or optimize your supply chain. Perhaps you are doing one or the other or both. In any case, to get beyond theory and into actual practice for this:

• What are the key factors you are considering changing? Why are they foremost?
• How much of your work is on people and mindsets? How much on changing processes?
• What role does technology play? Is that changing also? Does new technology trigger additional changes?
• How can you keep what is working well and change what needs improvement?
• What are the crucial factors to keep products and materials moving while you undergo supply chain changes?
• What has worked well? What obstacles remain?
• What approach are you taking to program and project management to ensure good outcomes?

Please join us on February 19 to get pragmatic about our supply chain improvement plans. Come ready to talk about what you've seen, or where you have questions or hesitations. We are a Community to help each other with Smart Manufacturing progress!

Agenda: 

• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Facilitator introduction 
• Community & Group overview – why participate and what to expect 
• Smart Manufacturing Paradigm 
• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Summary of last meeting 
• Today's subject 
• Wrap up 
• Next meeting 
• How to keep the conversation going 
• Thanks

The Community meets every two weeks via virtual facilitated meetings. The Community is a benefit of MESA membership. Members automatically receive the Zoom link/invitation. Not a member? Join today! 

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