Supply Chain Management
During the 1990's, customers redefined the way they wanted to do business and began to demand products and services to fit their own schedules, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. In response, a number of the best multinationals broke away from competition by optimizing their supply chains with information technology to satisfy this emerging business model.
Before most organizations could even adapt to the emerging business model, it changed again. Ground breaking research by the BPI Research Center in 2000 proposed a new business model for life science companies----a supply web rather than chain.
Today, the Internet is redefining the supply chain into a supply web and creating a brand new business model. At BPI Technologies, we leveraged our pioneering work on Strategic Enterprise Solutions and the BPI Research Center to develop what we envision as the new emerging business model, as shown below.
Emerging Supply Web Business Model ---Ground breaking BPI research
Driving this model are several factors including:
- The ability of customers to shop for the best price, quality and delivery of products and services real time on the Internet.
- Venture capitalists' investment in e-commerce organizations.
- Supply chains moving on-line.
- The economics driving management decisions to outsource manufacturing operations.
In our opinion, companies will either adopt this new business model to their advantage or cease to exist. Our pioneering work plus years of experience has made BPI Technologies a recognized leader in the integration and optimization of every aspect of the emerging supply web.