Peter Schonefeld
Mgr. SCM Strategy Schmitz Cargobull, Altenberge (Germany)
Reduce Supply Risks – The financial crisis and results
to tackle future risks in the supply network.
Within the last years the economic and ecologic circumstances got more and more influence and importance. So for instance a lot of companies had been forced to cooperate with other companies along their different supply chains to stay successful. In addition to this, the market-surroundings became tougher every month. Huge positive and negative peaks concerning the customer-individual demands combined with highly frequented product ramp-ups couldn’t actually realized without a deeper cross-company integration and synchronization.
In the meantime this increasing synchronization is a significant advantage, but on the other hand, it is also an increasing risk factor inside your supply network. If there´s only 1 synchronized partner within your supply network not able to cope with these deep impacts – e.g. the financial crisis we’ve seen during the last 2 years – and runs the risk of becoming bankrupt, the output of your supply chain and at the end the output of your customer is endangered. In order to protect your network against these damages, you have to widen your focus on several aspects of supply risk management, to provide your network and finally your customers for the different risks which could take place along your supply chains.
Vitae
Peter Schonefeld is currently responsible for the Supply Chain Management at the European market leader in trailer manufacturing - Schmitz Cargobull - in Germany. He coordinates the different operative supply chains and is also responsible for the further strategic development of the topic “supply chain management” at Schmitz Cargobull.
In the years before he had made a lot of operational practice in building up, managing, controlling and developing supply chains. Furthermore he was and is currently responsible for the implementation of a concern-wide rolling forecasting
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