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Central and Eastern Europe Supply Chain Academic Roundtable. Objectives. Identifying opportunities and challenges for SCM in CEE industrial academic Developing a research agenda Developing teaching materials. Wrap up. Economies should focus to get a sustainable competitive edge
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Objectives • Identifying opportunities and challenges for SCM in CEE • industrial • academic • Developing a research agenda • Developing teaching materials
Wrap up • Economies should focus to get a sustainable competitive edge • Taiwan, Korea, Germany, Singapore • scale is quintessential to build expertise and drive costs down • "all players should be there" • IP protection • CE as postponement centre • Proximity to big WE markets • Infrastructure insufficient • Bureaucracy issues • Lack of medium skilled people
Wrap up • Total landed costs and value creation • taxes • forecast accuracy • price erosion • shelf life • Need for new way of "cost-benefit" analysis