Whether providing medical supplies to area hospitals or shipping frozen foods to local grocery stores, a business can crumble without a supply chain that supports its needs and the needs of its customers. Supply chains are just that indispensable. Yet as the pandemic laid bare, supply chains are inherently vulnerable. It is only a matter of time before something compromises supply chain performance. From microchip shortages caused by elevated demand to meager crop yields triggered by historic drought, any number of scenarios can cause the links that create a supply chain to crack, break, or fall apart.

The unknown and the unexpected make supply chain planning a top priority. Supply chain planning involves utilizing best practices, analytics, technology, and historical data to better anticipate demand and minimize disruption. But if you do not have the right solutions in place to solve your business’s significant challenges – whether they involve poor visibility, labor shortages, equipment availability, demand planning, or global bottlenecks at shipping ports – your supply chain planning infrastructure can be set up to fail.

The supply chain represents the cornerstone of every product-based business and industry. To see real-world examples of transformative supply chain planning solutions Inspirage has implemented for companies in a wide range of industries, check out our Customer Spotlights. These case studies offer a bird’s eye view into some of the organizations with which we have worked, the challenges they encountered, the solutions we recommended, and the results they are now seeing thanks to a more balanced state of supply and demand.