Global Manufacturers Address Supply Chain Knowledge Gaps with Real-Time Visibility

March 8, 2015 - PRLog -- Forecast Errors, a weekly e-newsletter, sponsored by Ultriva, reported that the world’s largest chemical company, BASF faces some unique challenges when it comes to keeping its supply chain managers and employees around the globe well informed and up to speed with the latest knowledge and information. “As the company has expanded, that proposition has become exponentially more difficult,” says Dirk Hopmann, BASF’s vice president of supply chain strategy. Establishing common supply chain nomenclature across BASF’s operations, for example, and particularly in light of the firm’s many recent acquisitions of other entities, has been especially challenging. To address that situation, the global manufacturer puts its new and existing employees through APICS’ certification process, starting with BASF’s supply chain managers.

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