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Here is part 2 on the important of Response Management. Make sure to check out part 1 ! Kerry Zuber , one of my colleagues who is a Lean/Six Sigma black belt, has introduced me to two great terms that are crucial to understanding the value and key …
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Response Management is all about what you do when what you planned to do (forecast) does not match what is happening (actuals). This can be applied to any forecast, whether that is the traditional sales forecast of the number of units sold in a region, …
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Mike Burkett wrote in this Mondays’ First Thing Monday, a regular Gartner commentary on supply chain issues that requires registration, that Although there may be no such thing as a perfect forecast, there are plenty of opportunities for improvement and …
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It is easy to be a ‘free trader’ while your economy is dominant. It is a lot more difficult to hold the line when your economic dominance is being eroded. I am referring of course to the blog titled “ Low cost of labor – How long will it last? ” …
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This is part two of a series of blogs I will write about the Gartner Supply Conference in Scottsdale on Jun 1-3, 2011. Check out my first thoughts on event here . I’m still mulling over the implications of the Top 25 list, so that will have to wait for …
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I always feel like a kid in a candy store at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. First of all as a vendor it is great to get so much practitioner talent in one location. There really is a lot of good thought leadership coming out of the leading …
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For a while way back in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, before Supply Chain Management (SCM) was a discipline, I worked for one for the management consulting companies doing business process reengineering (BPR). These were the days when most companies …
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I have been following the debate about the use of the terms IBP (Integrated Business Planning) and S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) over the past few months with a lot of interest. It is with much trepidation that I step into this proverbial hornet’s …
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David Manners wrote a blog on Apr 28, 2011 titled ‘ Why is the supply chain so opaque? ’ on his Mannerisms blog, in which he states The complexity of the electronics supply chain is such that, six weeks on from the earthquake, no one is sure what its …
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I am fascinated by the social and cultural changes taking place throughout the world, driven largely by the emergence of the so-called BRIC countries, and hastened by the predominantly Western recession in 2008. I used to love the fact that only certain …
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I have been on a trip literally around the world, well, the Northern Hemisphere actually. My trip was originally to take me to Tokyo to meet some customers, Shanghai to speak at a conference, and, finally, London to speak at a conference and meet with …
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Believe it or not, I didn’t plan the alliteration. But that is my central point: So much of actual demand is unplanned. Which is fine as long as it is near to what was expected in terms of items purchased, period in which purchased, and the …