Do you have a corporate social responsibility statement? Is it understood and implemented?My company does have a social responsibility statement that is understood and implemented. Our company is good at sharing best practices an innovation across operations in Nutrien.Nutrien’s Sustainability Strategy: Feeding a growing population is one of the world’s greatest opportunities and one of its greatest challenges. Our vision is to be the leading global integrated ag solutions provider. Nutrien’s sustainability strategy complements our corporate strategy by providing key enablers for organizational success and bringing our Purpose to life. Priorities of the Strategy include sustainable agriculture, our environmental footprint and diversity and inclusion growth. Community investment opportunities that are in line with the priorities are supported.Nutrien’s Purpose: Grow our world from the ground up.  By 2050, we’ll need to grow food for almost 10 billion people. That’s why we’re raising expectations on what an agriculture company can be. From the bottom of the mine to the top of the silo, our employees around the world are committed to feeding the future safely and with integrity each day.

Angela, agreed - vendor managed inventory is a consideration for some of the items.  We have moved some inventory (very little to date) to vending machines and have one site with an on site store managed by the supplier.  But yes, it may be a great option for more items.

Consider and discuss an area in your supply chain that could be subject to the bullwhip effect.  Give an example of how this can happen and provide some ideas on how to mitigate the effect.Special projects cause our consumer (or end user) to require a much higher quantity of inventory items which can deplete inventory making the item unavailable for the rest of the site. Better planning would mitigate this effect. The planning department should let the Procurement department know ahead of time or place a special order rather than depleting inventory. Should a higher minimum quantity be held in inventory the planner can notify the procurement department to make this change.Another example would be a shortage that causes panic “hoarding”. When antibacterial wipes were on back order a year ago, the last of the inventory stock was signed out in much higher quantities that usual and stockpiled by our underground workers. We were waiting on back orders and trying to order higher quantities which the supplier could not keep up with. The way that this was mitigated was when the next shipment arrived, they were not able to be signed out without supervisor approval to ensure that excess were not signed out and stockpiled and that everyone who needed got some.

@nnzewi my organization does sound similar to your previous workplace.
Thank you for you comment about Process Mapping, I agree with your comment.  There are many process steps.