The Changing Dynamics of Pull and Push Theory in Supply Systems

Using Manufacturing and Retail Industries as Case Analysis

Times are changing with lots of redundancy within the corporate culture of supply chain systems, making it very difficult to capture added value of optimization in a best in class manner, in my over 15 years experience as a supply consultant by rising through the ranks understand the flexibility manufacturing and distribution firms plays to mitigate the overall risk. Manufacturing firms should have a robust material requirement platform that should drive clean information to all supplier bases, and identify good aggregate data about the final deliverable.