{"id":2843,"date":"2010-02-24T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/02\/24\/whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:59:23","slug":"whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitepaper Wednesday &#8211; Supply Chain Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on the Purchasing Certification Blog. Today, I\u2019ll be reviewing a whitepaper entitled \u201cSupply Chain Design:<br \/>\nOptimizing Your Supply Chain for Bottom-Line Results\u201d from Fortna and Purchasing Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Some whitepapers give solutions. Others simply give you things to think about. This whitepaper falls into the latter category.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those \u201cthings to think about\u201d include these questions for those designing or redesigning their supply chains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the optimal flow of goods from suppliers to our customers?<\/li>\n<li>What are the optimum number, location, and types of facilities needed throughout the network to meet service targets at minimal cost and tax burden?<\/li>\n<li>What capabilities must our facilities have, who will manage them, and what expectations do we have for performance?<\/li>\n<li>Where are our opportunities for improvement in costs, tax reduction, and asset utilization, and what investments will need to be made?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 these are questions that you absolutely should ask. But the whitepapers that I\u2019ve always found most valuable were those that gave guidance on how to answer those questions.<\/p>\n<p>No answers here.<\/p>\n<p>And, actually, the whitepaper turns into more of a brochure with the last 2-1\/2 of its 7 pages dedicated to introducing you to Fortna\u2019s capabilities. While the whitepaper does serve to show that Fortna understands the challenges of designing an optimized supply chain, they do hold their solutions quite close to the vest in this document. Nonetheless, if you care to download your own copy and form your own opinion, you may do so from Purchasing Magazine\u2019s Web site (registration required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whitepaper Wednesday - Supply Chain Design - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whitepaper Wednesday - Supply Chain Design - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome back to another installment of Whitepaper Wednesday here on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-02-24T21:20:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-27T11:59:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-055.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1288\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/whitepaper-wednesday-supply-chain-design\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"Whitepaper Wednesday &#8211; 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