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Here are some tips and valuable resources

Close collaboration between you—as external suppliers—and the manufacturers is essential for managing disruptions, aligning production with demand, and adapting to changing market conditions. By working together, we can create a more transparent, responsive, and resilient supply chain that thrives even in unpredictable times. Below, we’ve provided key insights and strategies to help you strengthen your position in the network and contribute to a robust, agile supply chain.

  • You indicated that you do not see increasing demand to connect on individual customer platforms to share data on transactions and production. Industry leaders are already in the process defining their supply chain roadmaps and interest in digitizing supplier collaboration has been increasing. You can anticipate the request by mapping your own customers and process onto how you already collaborate today.
  • You indicated that your system architecture does not allow for standard integrations with cloud applications. When you’re next in a position to define or adjust your source systems, it would be a great plan to try and foresee an integration workstream that includes the baseline of standard integration documentation.
  • You responded that your customer collaboration is not handled by a centralized function. That’s ok but, if you have the capacity, it would be great next step to consider establishing a centralized team—ideally one that covers all of your production sites—for consistent and efficient collaboration with customers. 
  • You told us that your data is not shared consistently across your customers. Requests for information may vary in scope and format but the important thing is that such data can always be transformed into a standard format. You should consider implementing uniform data collection and documentation on your side so that you can always start from a position of common understanding when there is a request to share. 
  • You indicated that you would not like to be involved in your customers’ transformation journeys around SC supplier collaboration. At a minimum, we would recommend that you engage with your customers to better understand their digital roadmaps. While collaboration is transactional at its core, it will still require some level of adoption from your side to ensure operations run smoothly. 

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