By he I mean he and his team of talented designers, engineers, supply chain wranglers, and technologists.
So when we consider the importance of a well-defined, well-engineered supply chain management function, the implications, organizationally, are widespread and certainly worth noting.
This paper demonstrates how an innovative UK lighting company re-engineered its supply chain to accommodate the impact of product life cycles.
Indeed, some companies have re-engineered their supply chains to gain a huge competitive advantage.
"If you think your major supply route will be blocked for long periods of time, you will re-engineer your supply chains and people are scrambling round for warehousing now to get their ducks in a row," he said.
Like the company's existing iOS offering, the Android app enables users to view any of the 200,000 or so 3D Computer Aided Design CADD) models shared by the GrabCAD community, as well as access files stored on GradCAD Workbench, a private space in the cloud for engineers and supply chain partners (and even customers) to share and collaborate on 'work-in-progress'.
Jeff Hsu, a Taiwan-based engineer and supply chain specialist, points out that as supply chains grow too complex for lone-wolf entrepreneurs to manage, hardware companies turn to specialized Taiwanese firms like Foxconn, many of whom are moving production inland.
Leveraging its Ratio platform and business model, Zume can re-engineer the food supply chain from field to fork.
Craig Lack is a healthcare expert who reverse-engineers the healthcare supply chain for big companies to save them millions.
Engineer your supply chains to be resilient to further shifts and instabilities in trade policies and exchange rates.
There is a new generation of industrial engineers, trained in supply chain systems and in the use of sophisticated analytical tools.
