Supply chain executives aren't just asking, "What is COE" … They’ve seen how other companies have successfully created a center of excellence (COE) to maximize the impact of their digital transformation. Manufacturers have used these COE’s as a unified way to set standards, drive continuous improvement, provide ongoing training, and cultivate innovation across the global enterprise. Given the success of these initiatives, supply chain leaders are urging their own company to apply this same concept to production scheduling. A center of excellence (COE) for production scheduling is a cross-functional collaboration to establish best practices and maximize the value of digitalization investments. However, the dialogue and efforts aren’t strictly limited to how to use the production scheduling platform. Manufacturers with a production scheduling COE focus on driving enterprise business results by:
- Aligning people, processes, and technology;