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A couple of weeks ago we had a user and prospect conference in Tokyo, which I was fortunate enough to attend and present at. I covered the North American conference in two previous blogs – Part 1 and Part 2 . I was surprised when I worked out that it had …
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I am fascinated by the changes happening in the pharmaceutical industry and spent the latter part of last week in San Diego at the 6 th Biomanufacturing Summit getting some deep exposure to a sector that is growing very quickly. Very briefly and …
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Given the increasing trend in outsourcing in all industries, there is great amount of interest in visibility. It is the ‘money men’ that have pushed us in the direction of outsourcing and off-shoring, largely to get expensive assets off the books and in …
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I like to think of myself as a champion for women in all walks of life. And in terms of the supply chain, I believe there are female characteristics that we can and should leverage a lot more, specifically their more collaborative and consensual approach …
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I’ve attended several Life Sciences events recently (including Biomanufacturing Summit ) and it’s quite clear that these supply chain teams are working in a new, complex world. Not only do they need to meet diverse customer expectations, but they need to …
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The emerging or intensifying industry dynamics that I discussed in an earlier blog post , along with significant shifts in strategy, are having a direct and material impact on the way Life Sciences supply chains must operate. The compounded effect of a …
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Several of us from Kinaxis took the annual trip to Phoenix for the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. It has been interesting to follow the evolution of the conference from the early AMR Research days, when only a little over 100 people attended …
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Of course the title is a play of the adverb “smack in the middle”, which Merriam-Webster defines as at the heart of the matter. By SMAC I mean the acronym Cognizant , amongst others, uses for Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud. SMAC has the potential to …
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My friends at Cognizant and I have been having a healthy discussion on the Internet of Things and how these technology changes are shaping the way we work. Part 1: SMAC in the Middle of Supply Chain Change Part 2: Will the Internet of Things (IoT) Help …
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At Kinexions this year we have a lineup of very interesting speakers discussing innovation and digital supply chains. On the first day, Jeff DeGraff , the Dean of Innovation, will be our keynote speaker. In his session, Connecting the Dots of Innovation , …
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This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. Gartner recently published an update to their Magic Quadrant for Supply Chain Planning System of Record and …
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What I took away from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference … Supply Chain Management is a relatively young practice, though many of the core principles go back many decades and are based on Operations Research concepts. These have focused on …