All posts by Nilgün Demir

Nilgün has end to end supply chain experience working in chemicals, food & packaging, and retail industries. She has extensive supply chain experience with linking planning, procurement, operations, and logistics for an integrated manufacturing solution.

Production Capacity Plan Refresh: Be Prepared for the Next Big Disruption

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The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak placed many corporate sectors under unprecedented pressure.  Global supply chains were heavily impacted with the sudden disruption of their operations and workers staying off-premise. Supply chain planners, more than ever, are now searching for ways to leverage their people, processes, and modern technologies to reduce disruptions caused by unexpected supply and demand …
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7 Steps to Achieve a More Sustainable Supply Chain

Supply chain sustainability sounds like it should be table stakes for our industry. However, rapidly changing business conditions often cause organizations to suffer from unplanned heavy demand and unrealistic deadlines. This causes upstream suppliers to request overtime from their resources to meet demand surge. Even though downstream organizations follow sustainability guidelines, high demands and local …
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Global Health as a Supply Chain Risk

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the frailties in our supply chains. If we would like to keep our supply chains from being paralyzed by a global health crisis in the future, perhaps we can learn something from our colleagues in Environmental Health & Safety. Because the EH&S departments of manufacturing companies perform assessments periodically to …
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