
Businesses that are closely networked with their suppliers and partners benefit from the exchange and strengthen their future viability.
Thomas Spiess
Senior Partner, Staufen.Inova AG
Will global networks that can be successfully managed still exist at all in the future?
The number of partners involved in value creation has increased immensely across all levels. Networking and complexity will therefore continue to increase. These days, competition no longer takes place between individual companies, but between entire networks. Yet the events of the recent past have shown that the networks are more fragile than we thought.
Managing increasingly complex value chains is becoming an important competitive factor. Those who are victorious are those networks with sufficient and agile customer orientation. This is why Staufen has developed an approach for modern supply chain network management.
Staufen Supply Chain Network Management Framework
Central goal: make the entire network and the cooperation between the individual network partners more responsive, robust and efficient and thus improve the performance of the network.
In a world of increasingly intense pressures and threats, integrated supply chain network risk management is becoming much more important. This includes visibility and active monitoring of every kind of risk, for all levels of care, for all stakeholders, and all intersections of the network.
You can find all terms and explanations about our SCNM Framework in our SCNM Glossary.

Stabilizing the network requires cross-functional work in four dimensions
To meet these requirements, supply chain network management focuses on four key dimensions: operating model, network design, information system, and planning & control.
1. Operating Model
A supply chain network must be managed, controlled and strategically developed across the board..
2. Network Design
Deals with the configuration of all the different players along the value chain – end-to-end.
3. Data & Digitalization
The IT systems as business enablers ensure efficiency and transparency in the network while managing digitalized processes, digital networking, and business intelligence.
4. Planning & Control
Is essentially tasked with supporting all components in the network with the appropriate planning processes and establishing effective controlling..
The goals of a consistent supply chain network management
- Transparency on all network levels
- Increase of delivery performance
- Up-to-date data and data accessibility
- Alternative scenarios for critical areas and processes
- Implementation roadmap and prioritization of activity areas
- Monitoring and control system
YOUR EXPERTS FOR Supply Chain Network Management
We would be happy to support you in optimizing supply chain processes, structures or networks. Our international network of companies in Europe, Asia and America allows us to flexibly and quickly implement customer and market-specific tasks on a global scale.

Canan Jungel
Practice Lead of SCNMSTAUFEN.AG
CURRENT AND FUTURE TRAININGS OF THIS TRAINER
III. Train-the-Trainer to become a lean trainer
Operational Excellence in SME | Albrecht Jung live
Material in flow | SEW-EURODRIVE live
II. Lean Logistics
I. Basic training as a Lean Expert
Canan Jungel was during her dual bachelor studies as an executive assistant for the international freight forwarding company Gerner + Kahle GmbH responsible for operational logistics improvements. As a master‘s degree candidate Canan Jungel contributed to the development and introduction of the Lean Logistics Seminar for Staufen Academy. Since 2014 Canan Jungel is working as an Lean Consultant and Trainer at the Staufen AG. Since then she is nationally and internationally implementing lean transformation projects with the focus for lean processes and lean logistics operations. Furthermore as a Coach she is implementing and stabilizing Shop Floor Management in various branches. Within the Staufen Academy she is responsible for trainings within the public program, internal qualification and international training standards. Besides that she designs and conducts successfully customer specific qualification and training programs.

Thomas Spiess
Senior PartnerSTAUFEN.INOVA AG
Thomas Spiess has broad experience in precision-, luxury- and consumer goods- as well as textile and fashion industry. Besides his long-standing project management- and leadership experience in global Supply Chain Management, Thomas Spiess also has long-standing experience with challenging global supply chain projects. Amongst others he was responsible for the concept and development of an European duty-free warehouse including improvement of inbound- and outbound transport, relocation of production from Western to Eastern Europe and to Asia with improvement of the production- and sourcing network. Thanks to the large international leadership- and moderation experience Thomas Spiess achieved also cross-cultural excellent results.
Thomas Spiess has been working for Staufen Inova since 2015.
STAUFEN IS ONE OF THE BEST IN “PURCHASING AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT”.
This is the result of the renowned industry study “Best Management Consultants 2023” by brand eins and Statista.
Supply chains have long since become complex networks, so collaboration between network partners must be constructive, and the network itself must be designed to be responsive, robust, and efficient.