Peter Jones, the Managing Director and Founder of Prological, discusses automation and warehousing considerations in supply chain network design with Supply Chain Partners’ Sharyn Grant.
Sharyn and Peter discuss the most common mistakes organisations make in their approach to supply chain network design, automation and warehousing. Peter identifies how a poorly designed supply chain network can impact an organisation and its suppliers and customers, and how automation and warehousing strategies impact supply chain network design.
How Prological helped one of our clients
Peter shares a real-life example of how Prological helped one of our clients with network design, automation and warehousing, and key lessons learned. Peter recommends “sign nothing until you have designed everything”!
He also explains the key variables to consider when designing a supply chain network and how Prological’s dynamic network modelling approach works.
We discuss what organisations should consider before they invest in automation and how Prological helps our clients with this assessment and with warehousing strategies for brownfield and greenfield environments.
Key highlights:
1:02 minutes: The most common mistakes organisations make in supply chain network design.
8:51 minutes: How a poorly designed supply chain network impacts the organisation, and its suppliers and customers.
11:59 minutes: The most common mistakes organisations make in their approach to automation.
14:11 minutes: The most common mistakes organisations make in their warehousing strategy.
19:48 minutes: How an organisation’s automation and warehousing strategies impact the design of their supply chain network.
22:34 minutes: Real-life example of how Prological helped one of our clients with network design, automation and warehousing.
28:14 minutes: Key lessons learned during the real-life example client project.
28:52 minutes: Key variables to consider when designing a supply chain network.
32:05 minutes: How Prological’s dynamic network modelling approach works.
37:58 minutes: What organisations should consider before they invest in automation and how Prological helps our clients with this assessment.
42:36 minutes: How Prological helps our clients with warehousing.
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