European Supply Chain Strategies

The Manufacturing Insights' European Supply Chain Strategies research advisory service provides supply chain executives with an assessment of the impact of IT investments on supply chain performance and best practices for supply chain transformation. This forward-looking research, combined with fact-based analysis of successful supply chain strategies, provides clients with practical ways to improve service levels while minimizing cost.

Approach

This advisory service develops unique analysis and comprehensive data through Manufacturing Insights' proprietary research projects, along with ongoing communications with industry experts, manufacturing executives and practitioners, and product and service vendors.

To ensure relevance, our analysts work with subscribers to identify and prioritize specific topics to be covered in research reports. Our analysts are also available to provide individualized advice for manufacturing executives and vendors to help them make better-informed decisions.

Topics Addressed

The European Supply Chain Strategies advisory service covers a broad range of topics, including:

• Best practices for supply chain optimization
• Assessment of the impact of IT investments on supply chain performance
• Supply chain technology evaluations
• Governance models for supply chain optimization
• Regional outlook and best practices for manufacturing outsourcing
• Key areas of supply chain management necessary for creating successful business benefits for customers
• Impact on supply chain processes and information management when establishing operations in low-cost geographies
• Operational advantages to regional links with suppliers
• Emerging supply chain software applications and best practices for implementation
• Shifts in sales and operation planning and their effect on supply chain performance

Key Questions Answered

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

• What are the best governance models for supply chain optimization?
• What are the key areas of supply chain management necessary for creating successful business benefits for customers?
• How can you align supply chain processes and information management when establishing operations in low-cost geographies?
• What are the most innovative suppliers?
• What are the supply chain technology best practices in my industry?

Who Should Subscribe

The European Supply Chain Strategies advisory service is ideally suited to support the needs of CIOs, senior IT managers, and IT support groups supporting manufacturing and supply chain programs and initiatives, as well as marketing executives and directors of product marketing supporting manufacturing and supply chain technology. Technology providers will find this service valuable for gaining insight into the key challenges facing manufacturers and Manufacturing Insights' recommended actions for solving them.

Return on Research Investment

• Enable manufacturing organizations to take advantage of commercial best practices in solving supply chain business problems
• Help supply chain directors design and implement more effective supply chains and measure business improvements
• Provide supply chain executives with specific technology trends, helping them define IT strategies

• Better understand supply chain challenges unique to manufacturing and create solutions that best meet manufacturing organizational needs
• Anticipate key trends in industry-specific business process challenges in order to be ready to meet Western European manufacturing companies' IT requirements
• Monitor competitors and their offerings for supply chain organizations

Standard Subscription Deliverables

Manufacturing Insights values building client relationships and strives to foster a partnership with each client through continuous analyst interaction; concise delivery of current, timely, and relevant research; as well as custom research when needed. Each advisory service delivers strategic research covering business and technology issues. A summary of the basic service deliverables available to subscribers includes the following:

• Analyst inquiry time specific to the advisory service area
• 24 x 7 research access via manufacturing-insights.com
• Discounted admission to specific Manufacturing Insights or IDC conferences
• Complimentary forum invitations (Webcasts, telebriefings, industry briefings)
• Dedicated client service representatives

Lead Analyst

Pierfrancesco Manenti is the EMEA research director for Manufacturing Insights. In this role, he provides insight into the key issues and trends affecting the manufacturing industry verticals in Western Europe, including discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, automotive, CPG, and supply chains. Manenti has developed strong market experience in understanding industry-specific process challenges and vertical-specific technology trends in order to provide strategies on IT demand from end-user and vendor perspectives. He analyzes and anticipates key trends in industry-specific business process challenges, forecasts IT strategies and spending in specific subverticals in Western Europe, and provides consulting and advisory support to end-user organizations as well as to IT vendors.

Related Offerings

Related offerings to our industry-specific research practices include IT Spending Guides - segmented regional and country-level analysis by solution area; Go-To-Market Services (GMS) - a modular set of deliverables to assist clients in extending their market reach, validating their market strategy, and producing more responsive customer-centric marketing campaigns; Global IT Advisor (GITA) - a flexible, cross-disciplinary research service providing granularity in market information and analysis across a wide range of technology areas; and IT Management Service (ITMS) - a best-practices research service covering IT governance, portfolio management, vendor procurement, and more. In addition, Manufacturing Insights experts are available for individualized consulting engagements to address specific challenges or to customize the results of our syndicated research offerings.