Share This on Linked In A recent article in i2’s Supply Chain Leader by Kevin O’Marah of AMR on how [do] you design a supply chain organization to achieve maximum value did a great job recounting dozens of statistics that we already know about how great supply chains make great companies, but [...]
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Share This on Linked In In A New Supply Chain Normal?, Dan Gilmore of the Supply Chain Digest asked if there will be a new supply chain normal coming out out of the recession as many of the financial experts are expecting a new financial normal. His answer was that there [...]
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Share This on Linked In I couldn’t help but notice this recent article in Intelligent Enterprise that noted that SAP offered 91M for SAF. Now, good inventory management software is extremely valuable because it can significantly reduce the 30%+ overhead (on product cost) that many organizations lose in inventory each year, but SAF [...]
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Share This on Linked In In Win-Win Sourcing by Bill Jackson and Michael Pfitzmann in Booze Allen’s Sourcing Reloaded, the authors define knowledge-based sourcing as an approach where manufacturers and suppliers share a long-term commitment to improving each other’s capabilities, starting by working together to eliminate wasted effort and other inefficiencies. They then [...]
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Share This on Linked In Walmart has made it’s 15 Question Sustainability Product Index public. Can you answer it’s five questions on people and community? Do you know the location of 100% of the facilities that produce your product(s)? You should. You really, really should. Not just for ethical [...]
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Share This on Linked In Editor’s Note: This post is from regular contributor Norman Katz, Sourcing Innovation’s resident expert on supply chain fraud and supply chain risk. Catch up on his column in the archive.As a consultant, and given my areas of specialty, I never always & fully know [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in i2’s Supply Chain Leader on how resilient companies can manage demand when the past is not a reliable indicator of the future had a great table that compared and contrasted demand tactics and strategies in stable vs. volatile economies that did a great [...]
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Share This on Linked In A good article from last year’s Intelligent Enterprise covered six steps to better sales forecasting and demand planning. The process, which should revolve around the four critical components of people, process, information, and technology at its core, is straight-forward and a good guide for any organization that [...]
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Share This on Linked In The threat of contamination can be disastrous for both public health and businesses, thus prompting companies of all sizes to focus on sustainability initiatives designed to ensure the health of the entire food and beverage ecosystem. Aberdeen Group, Sustaining the Global Food Supply Chain, [...]
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Share This on Linked In Today’s organizations must proactively enhance their supply chain resiliency against multiple threats, because if they don’t: widespread disruption to customer deliveries can occur, brand equity could be damaged, loss of revenue could lead to investor discontent, [...]
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