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regularly seen in the oil and gas industry .
However , in today ’ s supply chain climate , big changes programmes like this require very solid and credible business cases . Lynch required leadership and financial backing , and strenuously looked at ways to harness available data and support the required results .
“ We had to be absolutely clear on the business case and ran simulations around how demand-driven planning would work in a lubricant supply chain . There are very few industries doing this . Nobody ’ s tackled it globally yet , so I think Shell Lubricants is the first global supply chain to adopt this methodology in its entirety ,” he says .
“ We ’ re talking about 30-plus key manufacturing plants around the world and several hundred stocking points , distribution centres , regional distribution centres , warehouses etc . These supply both local and networked markets , so accurate data was absolutely crucial . It ’ s a multi-year project of significant change management scale , which required significant commitment to drive this transformation .”
16 June 2018