Agile Supply Chain

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1629803910077{margin-bottom: 24px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Time is the most vital and fundamental element in all matters in the supply chain. Businesses want to meet consumer expectations and demands, which are frequently reshaped in changing market conditions. Speed in the supply chain is an important issue for businesses that want to survive and succeed in a tough competitive environment by applying strategic formulas according to the surprises brought by time. However, it is not sufficient alone. In addition to the fast functioning of the supply chain, flexibility, which brings adaptation to variables, is also an important factor. We have compiled the agility of the supply chain, which enables businesses to respond more easily to customer demands.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1629803910077{margin-bottom: 24px !important;}”][vc_column]

What is Agile Supply Chain?

[vc_column_text]There are many interlocutors who play a direct or indirect role in meeting customer demand. Manufacturers, suppliers, carriers, warehouses, retailers and even customers are supply chain rings. Therefore, each of them is an actor that affects the functioning of the supply process. The fast functioning of these actors reflects positively on the whole process. The ability of the supply chain to adapt to changing conditions rather than being fast, in other words its flexibility, leads to agility in the supply chain. Thanks to the advantages it offers, the agile supply chain strengthens the hand of businesses in meeting customer demand and thus serves to increase reputation in the long term.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1629803910077{margin-bottom: 24px !important;}”][vc_column]

Importance of Agility in Supply Chain

[vc_column_text]In the world known as the global village with the Internet age, international relations have come to the fore in many issues. For this reason, all businesses, regardless of their scale, including those working only for the local market, should read customer demands in the global market correctly. In line with these readings, businesses can personalize their products or services in all processes and serve them systematically and quickly. Understanding the demand changes correctly by analyzing and building the agile strategy on this basis provides significant advantages for businesses at this point.

Especially considering the effects of the recent global pandemic on the global economy, taking action in line with the constantly changing and unpredictable demands in today’s business world has made agility more valuable. Being able to face changing conditions and respond flexibly to demands allows businesses to move more agile than their competitors. Agility is a critical top strategy for businesses in this sense. Agile supply chain is a business strategy that prevents the formation of order backlogs or supply deficits and synchronizes supply in difficult to predict order processes full of surprises. It enables cost-efficient trading. For this reason, agility is an important strategy that strengthens the hand of businesses in holding on to the trade scene in fluctuating markets and increases success performance in competition.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1629803910077{margin-bottom: 24px !important;}”][vc_column]

Integration in Agile Supply Chain

[vc_column_text]Agility is a holistic and strategic business skill that encompasses organizational structures, information systems, logistics activities and the overall communication attitude of corporate operations. This skill requires the management of automation processes with integrated solutions, supported by up-to-date technological infrastructure. EDI systems, for example, play an important role in providing this management in businesses. The ability to combine and interpret information across the organization in a seamless and transparent manner strengthens businesses in competition.

The information transmitted between supply chain actors and collaborators is sensitive information, which can be fully strengthened by process integration. In process integration, there is co-operation. Common systems can be established, and solutions that can be shared by businesses can be provided by using logistics facilities such as joint production or storage with integration between systems. Establishing solution partnerships for different logistics alternatives brings along the prevention of potential problems and rational management of delivery processes. Common solutions in both information, production and distribution processes through the network established between businesses help to speed up, develop more easily and thus create cost  savings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]