This post is a little lengthy, so it’s been broken into Kicking It and Kinaxis, which you can skip to if you’re short on time.Kicking It Wakko That hits the spot! Yakko I hope […]
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Perfect Financial Storm Shutters SuppliersCommunistic Leader Closes BordersHurricane Hades Shutters East Coast PortToothpaste Terrorizes Teeth … Millions TaintedMelamine Mauls Mutts … Thousands DeadSpinach Salmonella Kills HundredsHow many times have we seen these headlines in recent years? Too Many. How many times in the past year has a crises like this affected your average […]
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A recent article on managing IT in a downturn in the McKinsey Quarterly had a couple of great points.1. In some instances, IT investments deliver more value to a company’s top and bottom lines — by creating new efficiencies and increasing revenues — than any savings gained from traditional IT cost cutting.2. The impact on […]
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I recently encountered yet another RFID article that took a look at how RFID will impact supply chain optimization and control and decided that I just can’t ignore the subject any longer. As you have probably guessed from that first sentence, I’m not a big RFID fan. It’s yet another technology that greatly […]
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The Seven Grand Challenges for Supply and Spend Management cross-blog series has come to an end. We had some great posts, including those from front-runners Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters and the Strategic Sourceror of The Strategic Sourceror, but participation was low this time around, compared to back in January when I […]
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Industry Week recently ran an interesting article by Daniel Flint, Professor of Marketing at The University of Tennessee about moving value through the supply chain. The article, which starts off by noting that it’s not just value that moves through the supply chain, but perception of value, notes that you have to deal with both […]
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A recent Industry Week article on Implementing Supply Chain Management Solutions made a good point — the biggest factor in the collapse of supply chain management (SCM) implementations is … change — the type of change inflicted on an organization with little regard for how greatly it will impact the people and processes that serve […]
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As stated in a recent Supply & Demand Chain Executive Article, effective supply chain management is based on the ability to know the “what, where, when, and how” of your operations in real-time. However, it’s more than this. It’s the ability to understand the ripple effects and consequences from changes made to the […]
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It was nice to stumble upon an article in Industry Week that was published near the end of 2007 that tackled the subject of Demand and Supply Integration. It noted that companies are trapped in a pattern of reacting to the whims of the marketplace without developing a proactively designed supply capacity and that […]
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A recent article in the Supply Chain Management Review outlined A Plan for Building a New Supply Chain because, according to the author, supply chains need to be redesigned from the ground up to remain competitive. Now, I wholeheartedly agree that the average supply chain lacks efficiency and needs to be improved - […]
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