SCM Accelerators Blog Brexit & Trade Wars - Supply Chain Modeling a Clear Path in an Uncertain World

Author: Daniel WilhelmiRemember the days when our Supply Chain efforts focused on calculating the optimal inventory quantities, improving an availability check, reducing forecast bias, and building out technology roadmaps? Now we check Twitter each morning to know what trade policies have changed and dive into war rooms to assess tariff and tax implications on everything from our product routing to free trade zone positions. Our customers are experiencing direct supply chain modeling impacts by two major political events that have taken place over the last ~24 months: Brexit and the US tariff "trade war". They are all asking the question: how do you keep your planning, execution, and processes in sync with an ever-changing environment?