This slideshare describes how manufacturing supply chain management teams can utilize mobile apps to drive responsiveness and efficiency throughout the supply chain process.

1. Improve Responsiveness and Drive
Efficiency with Mobile Apps for
Supply Chain Management

2. Optimizing manufacturing supply
chain processes
53%
of
manufacturing
organiza.ons
are
challenged
with
op.mizing
supply
chain
management
processes
Manufacturing organizations are challenged
with optimizing their supply chain
management processes and moving away
from disconnected, paper-based forms.
These organizations are challenged with
providing accurate data to their user,
increasing business responsiveness, and
meeting customer demands.
Mobility provides manufacturing
organizations with the opportunity to foster
real-time collaboration and exchange of data
for an increased focus on keeping your
teams productive and increasing workflow
efficiency. Mobility makes planning and
decision-making easier, allowing for the best
use of resources.

3. Current trends in supply chain
operational excellence
• Move toward SCM 2.0 to leverage solutions
designed to rapidly deliver agile results
through a supply chain collaboration platform
• Tighter integration of production and
replenishment planning with increased
automation
• Increasing demand for high-technology goods,
globalization, and agile logistics and
communication

4. The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY
The opportunity for manufacturing
supply chain organizations to cost-effectively
innovate in-house. New
apps allow for better collaboration
between business unit leaders and
IT.
OLD REALITY
Organizations hired costly
consulting firms to drive
operational excellence initiatives
for lean, agile supply chain
management

5. The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY
Consumers have been trained to
use mobile devices, and new mobile
apps provide a fast, personalized
user experience custom-tailored
for their role.
OLD REALITY
Organizations were constrained for
resources when trying to adapt
current supply chain teams to new
business processes.

6. The Old Reality vs The New Reality
NEW REALITY
Opportunity to modernize supply
chain operations and foster secure
communication in a cheaper, more
efficient way.
OLD REALITY
Organizations relied on outdated
manual processes, such as
collaborating using paper or
spreadsheets, which are time-consuming
and prone to human
error.

7. Identify customer value by responding
to their needs
Identify Customer Value
With systems in place for being more
responsive throughout the customer value
delivery process, supply chain teams can
make continuous improvements based on
customer’s feedback and values.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility provides a mechanism for
increasing responsiveness on every point in
the customer value chain to deliver the
maximum efficiency, responsiveness and
custom
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

8. Optimize processes by understanding
customer values
Map the Value Stream
Supply chain teams receive feedback on
what their customers truly value in terms of
products and services, and can easily
collaborate with each other on improving
the value delivery process.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility provides the tools supply chain
teams need to optimize processes and
increase responsiveness to customers in
real-time.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

9. Track metrics and eliminate waste
with the right data
Create Flow
After building in responsiveness and
creating the ability to optimize supply
chain processes, manufacturing
organizations now determine metrics
that matter for tracking.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobile apps provide the tools needed
to easily track right-time metrics for
better fine-tuning of critical supply
chain processes.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

10. Optimize materials and labor to
measure customer buying habits
Establish Pull
Supply chain teams have now identified
where to be more responsive to
customers by collecting data to
optimize processes and make material
and labor decisions for desired inputs
and outputs.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility provides a way to put metrics
to work, modernizing processes and
optimizing materials and labor costs to
get the job done.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

11. Pursue perfection with continuous
evaluation of current processes
Pursue Perfection
By making processes more efficient and
productive, it is easier to drive
continuous improvement. Your team
can now understand customer value
and how to maximize processes to meet
their needs.
Where Mobility Adds Value
Mobility gives your team the
opportunity to pursue perfection
through iterative, continuous
improvement.
Identify Customer
Value
(Responsiveness)
Pursue Perfection
(Continuous
Improvement)
Map the Value
Stream
(Optimize Processes)
Create Flow
(Track Metrics)
Establish Pull
(Optimize Materials
and Labor)

12. Mobility adds value from supply chain
to sale
Inventory Control
Real-time Logistics
Scheduling
Receipt Acknowledgements
Work Order Approvals
Supply
Chain Operations Fulfillment Sales &
Marketing Post Sale
Product Lead Times
Order Tracking
Scheduling Visibility
Quality Control
Dispatch Scheduling
Logistics
Route Optimization
Warehouse Automation
Customer Dashboard
Sales Reporting
Quotes/Estimating
Competitor Intel/Analytics
Service Manuals
Service Performance
Dealer Management

13. Improve primary manufacturing
functions with mobility
Admin, IT and Finance
Human Resources
Procurement
Product Development
Business Insight Dashboard
Business Unit Performance
Product Performance
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Performance Feedback
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14. Examples of pre-built manufacturing
supply chain apps
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processes
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and inventory levels

15. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Identify a meaningful supply chain chal-lenge
or need that could be addressed
with a mobile app.
Many challenges in supply chain management
tend to be the little things that add up to daily
frustration and loss of productivity for the team or
management. Examples include relying on manual
processes and collecting information manually on
paper.

16. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Start a conversation with your internal IT
department about existing policies and
procedures that might be applicable to
mobile app deployment.
When researching mobile apps, security should be
a top priority for your manufacturing supply chain
team. Keep your IT team involved as you evaluate
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team's needs.

17. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Start a conversation with your team, ad-dressing
their pain points and how their job
can be made easier with a mobile app.
For a mobile app to be successful for your supply
chain team, it must be focused on their needs. If they
could have a set of mobile apps to help them with
their job, what would the top three be? How chal-lenging
is it for the team to gather information and
collaborate together to achieve operational excel-lence?

18. How can you start “going mobile”
for operational excellence today?
Identify the key goals that your manufac-turing
supply chain team wants to achieve
with an investment in mobility.
When planning for the implementation of a mobile
app, consider what information and data they need
to keep revenue up while managing tight schedules
and deadlines. Beyond user acceptance, what are the
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