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Global Finance Magazine: Supply Chain Management Under Disruption
June 28, 2021
“Digital technologies will be a critical component of every company’s supply chain moving forward. They help optimize operations and achieve cost-saving goals, while enabling better customer-responsiveness from suppliers all along the chain.
Executives in this space talk a lot about the “supply chain control tower”—a dashboard of data, key performance indicators and other metrics that help managers achieve real-time, end-to-end visibility of their supply chains.”
CFO Magazine: Four Questions CFOs Should Ask Their Supply Chain Leaders
June 24, 2021
“For CFOs, it is critical to remain engaged in these conversations with their CSCOs and broader supply chain and transportation leadership. This includes making transportation volatility a C-suite-level conversation, capturing growth while controlling costs, ensuring that upstream and downstream collaboration is part of the ongoing strategy to strengthen the value chain, and adapting to a fast-changing environment.”
McKinsey: The new digital edge: Rethinking strategy for the postpandemic era
June 23, 2021
“The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the pace of business, and the companies with superior technology capabilities are winning…What was considered best-in-class speed for most business practices in 2018 is now slower than average. And at companies with the strongest technology endowments, respondents say they are operating at an even faster pace.”
SF Magazine: Contract Manufacturing for OEM CFOs
June 17, 2021
“The CFO’s team should be involved in all outsourcing decisions, including CMO selection and management. Throughout the selection process, the CFO provides leadership and a framework for evaluating decisions and expected results from a cash and operational risk perspective. Perhaps most importantly, finance professionals help evaluate costs, calculate what-if scenarios, and analyze the risks and rewards of different production or logistics options…The CFO identifies relevant costs, drilling down into details such as inbound freight, labor, overhead, capital, and inventory.”
