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Do you trust yourself to collaborate? The real barrier to collaboration is not technology, but trust
When I need inspiration I normally go to TED. I can normally find a topic that is peripheral but pertinent. Such was my quest with “collaboration”. I believe very strongly in the value that collaboration can bring to massively outsourced supply chains …
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Image via Wikipedia There is an interesting debate taking place amongst the commentators of IT trends and enterprise applications, particularly ERP and supply chain management applications, about the suitability and adoption of cloud or …
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Having had some disagreement with a previous post by Kevin O’Marah of Gartner about S&OP, I was very pleased to get his weekly “First Thing Monday” in my inbox the other day. It is titled “Healthcare Needs Supply Chain ... Stat!” Yes, it does. Like Kevin …
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Seldom do we get the opportunity to compare 2 opposing views in as timely a fashion as the opportunity provided by the First Thing Monday blog by Kevin O’Marah (Group Vice President of Supply Chain Research for Gartner) titled “ Sales and Operations …
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A few weeks ago I wrote a blog titled “S&OP needs to evolve – I’m frustrated with traditional thinking!” in which I questioned a description of S&OP that is as much as 30 years old. Just to reiterate, I agree that much of the difficulty of implementing …
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Kinexions 2010 is now complete – and what a success it was. The general presentations in particular were very valuable and well received. Without a doubt the central theme to the customer presentations at Kinexions was how companies are using Rapid …
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Much has changed in the business environment, let alone the technology environment, since the origins of the term S&OP by Oliver Wight nearly 30 years ago. From a business environment perspective we have only to look at the rise of the BRIC countries – …
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I have not witnessed anything that has created as much buzz in the computing community as the goings on between Oracle and Hewlett-Packard over the past few weeks. Well, perhaps Steve Jobs' health and discussion about succession at Apple, but that was …
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I, along with Bob Ferrari and Lora Cecere and about 300 other people, attended the IE Groups conference on S&OP and FP&A in Boston last week. Bob has commented on the conference, to which Lora replied. I’ll come back to their comments later. What struck …
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With the rise of the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China – we hear so much about manufacturing outsourcing and off-shoring. Of course with wage increases in these countries, ever relatively cheaper manufacturing countries such as Vietnam are …
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For me one of the pleasures of being on vacation, as I was last week, is to read different newspapers and learn a bit about the local economy and politics. While not quite as “local” as I would have liked, I happened upon the Caribbean version of the …
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It is always a pleasure to read Bob Ferrari’s Supply Chain Matters blog. He addressed parts/component shortages, a topic that we are seeing across our customers in a recent post titled, “Parts Shortages Noted in the Mainstream Press- Are you actively …