Do you also experience that the complexity level in your company is growing? What considerations have been made to handle it? Participate in the complexity survey 2012 and receive selected results of your company complexity level and a benchmark for the overall response. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete the survey, and you will get the opportunity to win 2 bottles of fine wine.

 

Supply Chain Complexity

To deliver effective supply chain management is an art which concerns integration of functions and channels across the value chain in order to target all processes to the overall goals of the company. But value chains are dynamic, multifunctional and varying in processes and flows, creating what the theorists call Supply Chain Complexity. The level of complexity ascends from the number and variations of elements in each value chain (eg. number of players, connections, products, information flows, etc.) but to a large extend also to the interconnectedness of the elements.

SCOPTI Management Consulting A/S is one of the leading advisory companies with regards to  analyzing and optimizing complexity in supply chains, and we have just launched a cooperation with Copenhagen Business School regarding researching Danish companies' management of complexity. The starting point of the complexity study is that companies are experiencing an increasing degree of complexity as Sales and Marketing increases product and service portfolio, differentiates market approaches and recourse emerging markets - meanwhile voluntarily and globalization grows in the supply chain. Very few companies have begun to actively manage this complexity, and many companies are still at an immature level where they have identified that complexity is escalating, however, not knowing how to managed it.

 

Aim of the survey

SCOPTI wants to map Danish companies' maturity in managing complexity in the value chain and how they handle it. As drivers of complexity, we especially explore corporate structure, distribution ratio, supplier relations, product structure, product range and customer relationships. The drivers of complexity handling are many and some of the most important once are: management of product portfolio, integration/transparency in IT systems, knowledge sharing/collaboration and reducing non-value adding activities. Management of value chain elements creates challenges – this is not new, though the current study is the first of its kind that focuses on complexity in Danish companies and one which identifies what companies are doing to manage complexity in an intelligent way.

 

Click here to join. The survey language is Danish.