Dividing the pie: Allocating scarce resources in constrained supply chains

Session description

Supply chain flow is constrained nearly everywhere: raw materials, intermediates, transportation, production capacity, etc. To maintain margins, customer relationships, and stable supply, companies must optimize and communicate which demands to fill with available supply across markets, products, and customers. Often this prioritization is done based on the “loudest voice in the room” or without clear consideration of quotas, capacity, and trade-offs to the business, eroding margins and customer service.

In this webinar, we will discuss examples of how several industries are prioritizing demand and allocating supply based on their overall business strategy. The discussion will cover defining demand priorities, pegging finished product orders upstream through raw material, managing flexibility in quotas, and fully modeling the financial and service impact of decisions taken at the IBP level.