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The Role of Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Its Use for Business

Advanced supply chain planning - SCM or commonly referred to as supply chain management into a series of activities that include coordination, scheduling, and also control of procurement, production, inventory, and delivery of products to customers or services. In this SCM special attention is needed where the suppliers and distributors of these products can deliver goods to consumers without any obstruction. If it is not managed properly, of course the process of sending goods to consumers is not timely. Not only that, the goods sent can be in a bad condition because of the lack of visibility in the supply chain process.

Role in Business
When the goods reach the hands of consumers, many consider that the supply chain is complete. Even though this is not true, businesses need advanced supply chain planning which is useful in following up on the supply chain that your business has done. With this advanced supply chain planning, your business knows what your business needs to improve to do the next supply chain process.

Another role that can be done by using advanced supply chain planning is to ensure that each process of the supply chain is well-run, do business integration as a whole, and fix obstacles in the supply chain process quickly and accurately.

Use
There are a number of uses for advanced supply chain planning that are interesting for you to see below:

1. Feedback
The first use is to produce feedback. This feedback is very important because by knowing the responses and impressions of customers or consumers of your business so you know what needs to be improved in serving these consumers. Not only that, with a good supply chain planning you will know the weaknesses and strengths that have when running the supply chain process

2. Increase productivity
With continued supply chain planning, business can increase productivity. This productivity will increase if the feedback is successfully analyzed and then produces information that is important for the supply chain. If after giving a lot of feedback, it is known that there are coordination problems, so improvements can be made as soon as possible so that the errors or obstacles will not be repeated. Not only that, this advanced supply chain planning will also create communication and also enhance good cooperation between teams so that productivity increases.

By following up on the feedback given by your business, you will know what a better product distribution strategy is like. If the previous strategy is still considered good your business can use that strategy but if it is less effective for the business, you can plan a new strategy so that productivity is increased.

3. Minimize delay
Advanced supply chain planning is useful to be able to minimize delay time. This delay time will occur if communication between divisions is not able to run properly. The reason is the data that is out of sync and poor communication. With this planning your business will be able to anticipate delays in shipping goods, delayed production processes, and logistical recording errors. With you can minimize the delay time consumer confidence in your business will increase.

With the implementation of this advanced supply chain planning, many business people who easily carry out the supply chain process carried out at a later stage, easily create and schedule a business supply chain well. In addition, this advanced supply chain planning will also make cooperation between divisions smoother because communication is maintained well.

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