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What do you say when the CEO is asking whether the company will hit its revenue targets for the current reporting period? Can you tell the CEO instantly which customers may be facing late delivery, and which orders may not ship? Can you tell the CEO …
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I have been in supply chain management longer than I care to remember, but there are others who have been in the field even longer, and their experience and wisdom is often on display. I follow the writings and opinions of George Palmatier because he is …
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I find the battle raging in the cell phone handset market to be fascinating. But even as I wrote that sentence, I realized that the sentence is incorrect because the battle is more about the business model than it is between handsets. A recent article by …
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For the first time at our user conference, Kinexions, we invited in a number of analysts, bloggers, and consultants to give them a deep dive on Kinaxis and the roadmap for RapidResponse. We had an afternoon session devoted to the Influencers in which we …
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At the annual Gartner Supply Chain Conference (which used to be the AMR Research Supply Chain Conference) Jane Barrett introduced the term VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity As I stated in a blog after the conference, far too much …
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It is amazing to me that there are many in the West that continue to hope—dare I say, pray—that the shift in the world economies over the past 5-10 years is an aberration, and soon we will be back to the heady days the mid-2000s. Every day I read stories …
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An interesting set of articles came out over the past few weeks that look at the future direction of ERP and supply chain management. While these two solutions spaces are not the same, there is an overlap—in terms of functionality and also because the big …
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I guess many of you are familiar with the new laser printing capabilities that allow one to print , for example, a working flute? The silver one in the photo is a traditional flute made out of silver or some other metal. The white one was printed using a …
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The title came to me after downloading the presentation slides from a Gartner webcast ( Delivering Business Value from S&OP , Applebaum, T., Kohler, J., 29 March 2012). This is a very good presentation that outlines the reasons why most companies have not …
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A few weeks ago I attended the Global Supply Chain Business Summit hosted by John Gattorna who has written two important books and several articles on supply chain management, more specifically on segmentation which then drives supply chain structure, …
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I read with great interest a recently published report from Lora Cecere ( Building Market-driven Value Networks , Supply Chain Insights LLC, 7/10/2012) that outlines where she believes the market is going. I agree with her. While many of the examples she …
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Rami Karjian of Flextronics casually threw out the comment that “data is the new oil” during a session at the recent Gartner Supply Chain Conference in Palm Desert. The session titled “ New Business Rules – The Flextronics Next-Generation Supply Chain …