INNOVATION: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
Josh MaysMichelle Moran
Juliana CamilottiSteven Nguyen
COMPANY• Founded in Minnesota in 1902
as Minnesota Mining Manufacturing Company
• 214 plants in 41 countries– 40 countries with manufacturing
operations– 35 countries with laboratories• Operations in 28 states
in U.S. Inge G. ThulinChairman of the Board,President andChief Executive Officer
COMPANY
• 65,000 different products in 6 different sectors– Health Care– Consumer and Office– Industrial and Transportation– Display and Graphics– Electro and Communications– Safety, Security and
Protection Services
VISION
3M Technology Advancing Every Company3M Products Enhancing Every Home3M Innovation Improving Every Life
SUPPLY CHAIN
Simple Supply Chain1. Acquire Orders
• Print to 3M
2. Procure Raw Materials• Supplier Direct
3. Manufacture Products4. Fill Orders
Pull Supply Chain Model
ORDER PROCESSING
Print to 3M• New solution for
customer service and electronic ordering
• Customers send their POs electronically to 3M
3M Innovation Center of Technical Excellence
PROCUREMENTE-Procurement
• TPN Marketplace – Purchase contracted goods
from a group of online suppliers
• Supplier Direct– References– Documents– Forms– Links– Track Payments
INVENTORY
Manufacturing Hubs • Reduced the need to
keep large inventories
• Health Sector is the only that requires extra inventory
MANUFACTURING
• 214 Manufacturing Companies – 41 Countries
• 10 Super Hubs– 6 in the U.S.– Poland– Singapore– Japan– Germany
Eliminating Supply Chain Hairballs
LOGISTICS & TRANSPORTATIONLogistics• Plants in diverse markets• Manufacturing Hubs• WarehousesTransportation
– Truck– Rail– Water
• Standard Palletization Postponement Partners– DHL– Fiege– Schenker-Joyau– DSV
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• Before– Fragmented ERP systems
• 2010– Implementation of SAP
Business Suite 7• Leverage global demand
forecasting• Supply chain planning• Management: use SAP’s
Business Intelligence Software – compare performance
UNIQUENESS• Diverse and rapidly changing
company
• Innovation is part of the Corporate Culture
• Synergy in global network
• Tracking and Tracing solutions
• Centralized Transportation Controls
COMPETITION
Diversification• Competition in each of
the market segments– General Electric Co.– Honeywell International
Inc.
New Product Vitality Index
CHALLENGES & RECOMMENDATIONS
Challenges:• Track growing list of
products manufactured– Switching to new Hub
Manufacturing• Strategies for plant
locations– Demand driven
Recommendations:• Continue implementing
Hub-type manufacturing
• Close smaller manufacturing
• Continue improving and implementing a globalized ERP system
CONCLUSION
3M is a great example of a company that has been able to reinvent itself over and over. Even though it was created
for mining, which it soon failed at, it was able to pick itself back up and pioneer into new industries. This spirit
is still what drives 3M today. Now, however, it is not products or fields that 3M is having to be innovative in, it
is its supply chain. Internally, their supply chain was known to have “hairballs”,
but for the past few years the company has been working on ways to fix them, starting with what they call super-
hubs.