Supply chain innovation

You want to innovate in the design and management of your supply chain to better serve the end customer and create value for your company and your partners.

This fact sheet shows you how innovation in a supply chain not only supports or enables the strategy of an "extended" company, but also nourishes and enriches it.

It focuses on innovation in design (including the choice of actors) and in innovative supply chain management.

These different stages will help you to reach maturity within your company (and then externally with your partners), so that you can really innovate and reap the rewards.

The benefits are many:

• find new customers, increase the satisfaction of existing ones, improve your competitive edge;

• find new, more effective balances between customer satisfaction and costs;

• create value directly in the supply chain (financially, as well as socially and environmentally);

• enable a new business model or improve and perpetuate an old one;

• make the company's various strategies (marketing, sales, production, purchasing, supply chain) more coherent;

• find new partners, strengthen relationships with them, encourage innovation among them.