Issue 03 – October 2012
Collaboration is key Lena Fleschhut, Supply
Chain Project Manager at Plastribution, provides an update on the company’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to better understand its logistic and supply chain activities and the value they can create for its customers and suppliers.
With the KTP project running for more than one and a half years now, the bigger picture is slowly becoming visible. In this issue I would like to report about one tool, which we developed in order to nourish and sustain supply chain management at Plastribution.
Supply chain management is about managing material as well as information flows from the supplier through to the customer as efficiently as possible. Academia as well as industry leaders likewise report, that supply chain management is facilitated through working very closely together with all members in the chain – to collaborate with each other.
This practice is very powerful, not only practiced with external partners, but also within Plastribution. In order to encourage cross-functional collaboration within Plastribution, a number of projects have been developed, where teams from different departments work on process enhancements and process development within Plastribution.
The projects enable staff to learn from their colleagues, exchange knowledge about processes and simply have a look at what is going on outside their departmental wall.
The projects cover various areas such as customer services, human resource, purchasing and third party logistics management. The projects have been a great success so far and we could observe various gains.
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First of all, the projects achieved significant process improvement in a comparatively short time period.
The suggestions made by the project teams are innovative, entrepreneurial and sustainable and make a real difference to the business once implemented.
They also contribute to Plastribution’s efforts in continuous improvement.
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