2017 Yearly Overview | Prysmian Group

27 Prysmian further shaped its supply chain function in 2017 by supporting more specific production allocations at the level of individual business applications, with intercompany flows supporting growth and production cost optimisation. In the Telecom Optical business , intercompany flows reached a 35% share worldwide, and 53% at European level, thanks to a supply chain orchestration that maximised the availability of optical fibre for the Group in a global context that presents a lack of availability of optical fibre, despite the strong expansion of installed capacity by Prysmian. In the Energy business , 2017 intercompany flows represented a differentiator, with a level of 20% of total world sales (previously never reached), supporting growth in the Asia Pacific region in particular. Prysmian’s Supply Chain business function manages short and medium-term production allocations through a sales and operations planning process, which links the demand cycle with the supply cycle. The planning activity cannot be separated from the maintenance of high customer satisfaction. Providing excellent service to customers An enhanced supply chain means excellent service for our customers while maintaining flexibility, agility and adaptation to market changes, guiding the supply and production network through an increasingly optimised production allocation able to leverage the industrial footprint of the Group.