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I want to bring together a number of thoughts in this blog, most importantly the idea that as the practice of supply chain management has aged, there is a more rounded approach to the education and training of people entering the practice. Lora Cecere’s …
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For some months now, I have been discussing how best to measure the value-add of the supply chain with Lora Cecere and Abby Mayer at Supply Chain Insights . Abby has started the Supply Chain Index blog and Lora’s latest blog is titled “What I have learned …
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Control Towers, perhaps the most important concept to come out of Supply Chain Management practices in some time, is a concept in desperate need of definition and description. Aberdeen recently ran a survey of Business Intelligence (BI) looking for …
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Oliver Wight has long been at the forefront of Sales and Operations training and consulting - even to the point that many companies will tell you very proudly that they have attained Ollie Wight Class A certification for a variety of processes. Oliver …
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It is with great surprise that I read about the demise of yet another company focused on supply chain planning, namely the purchase of JDA by RedPrairie for $1.9B. Of course RedPrairie does not see it in this manner. They see this as growth, as …
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It is some weeks since I wrote a blog, but I have been mulling over some ideas, which was triggered by a colleague challenging me on my title of Thought Leader. While this is a personal tale, bear with me because it is about planning, or, more correctly, …
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It should come as no surprise that SCM World recently published findings (from the November 2012 report Apple and Amazon: Lessons for the Rest of Us ) that Amazon beat out Apple in a survey of top Supply Chain executives polled on which had the best …
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It is the traditional period in which people make resolutions and predictions for the next year. I have always followed the path of least resistance and succumbed to the general view that I need to do the same, despite having little confidence that my …
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A couple of weeks ago I came across a really interesting article titled “How Leaders Succeed in an Era of Volatility” in IndustryWeek by Mark Pearson of Accenture . Mark discusses how some US manufacturing companies have recovered more quickly than others …
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Over the last 20 years there has been a huge shift in Operations toward outsourcing, lead primarily by High-Tech/Electronics. This, coupled with rapid globalization not only into emerging markets, but into other developed economies too, has led to very …
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Here is part 2 on the important of Response Management. Make sure to check out part 1 ! Kerry Zuber , one of my colleagues who is a Lean/Six Sigma black belt, has introduced me to two great terms that are crucial to understanding the value and key …
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Response Management is all about what you do when what you planned to do (forecast) does not match what is happening (actuals). This can be applied to any forecast, whether that is the traditional sales forecast of the number of units sold in a region, …