The world of business is becoming even more unpredictable with emerging challenges that most business leaders have never experienced before. From a pandemic and political unrest in several countries to climate change, the way we do business nowadays has become increasingly challenging.
In our podcast episode with Grant Sackett, North American Supply Chain Manager for D.D. Williamson Colour, we discussed how using predictive models can ease uncertainties and help supply chain managers plan for the future.
Adapting to the ever-changing world
As a business that’s been around for over 150 years, D.D. Williamson has been through many changes and it never stops. It continues to expand globally, with currently 12 plants around the world. As with all organizations that lasted for more than a century, adapting and innovating is key.
“We’re learning as we go here. Obviously, a pandemic is new, but the weather and certain things you kind of learn to mitigate,” Sackett said. He emphasized the following key points in order to deal with challenges.
“It’s very important that if we want to keep up to the ever-changing demands of this food market with global, organic and non-GMO that we need to keep educating ourselves. It will never stop for D.D. Williamson, that’s for sure,” Sackett added.
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