Design, Plan, Execute & Support – A Supply Chain Evaluation Guide

Posted by Gavin Davidson, Product Marketing Manager for ERP
As hurricane season approaches, it’s a timely reminder that no matter how efficient your supply chain is, we’re all at the mercy of the next natural disaster. Building redundancy into your supply chain is critical, but even then you need to make sure that your supply routes are spread not only across multiple vendors, but also multiple geographies and ideally multiple shipping routes.
When NetSuite went about re-thinking its supply chain software, I went through the exercise of mapping out all of the processes and ended up grouping them into four categories: Design, Plan, Execute & Support. These categories really helped focus the customers I spoke with as we held our process mapping sessions, but they should also be useful when evaluating the effectiveness of your supply chain redundancy.