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Collaboration is without a doubt a key component in many companies' strategic initiatives. The touted benefits ( the good ) are significant and they extend well beyond the financials, to include service improvements and risk sharing. While some companies …
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Your organization has finally accepted the fact that without process change its objectives for performance improvement cannot be achieved. Furthermore, you’ve also come to the conclusion that your organization may not have the knowledge, experience, or …
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Who doesn’t embrace the concept of management by exception? This is one of those universal concepts that suggest we should build processes that handle normal variations virtually automatically, and reserve our precious human capital to address the …
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Can you achieve an acceptable level of supply availability without the current waste? There is no question that the Pharma industry must deal with a unique combination of supply chain and regulatory issues to meet its obligations to consumers, supply …
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Taking note of best practices across industries As mentioned in Part 1 of this post , despite the unique aspects of the Pharma industry, the bulk of the supply chain management issues are largely common to many other industries. And without the same …
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In a White House Blog post this month, the role of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in promoting supply chain innovation and helping small businesses was highlighted. The blog described how small business growth can influence regional …
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As the old song goes, “the times are-a-changing”. I was captivated this weekend by a blog post from Lora Cecere who went to great pains to highlight the revolution (versus evolution) needed in supply chain management to take things to the next level. No …
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Like most of my generation, the movie, The Wizard of Oz, represented not only a breakthrough in movie making, but a source of magical entertainment that still has the power to captivate my attention even after seeing it 25 or more times. One of the most …
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During my drive back to Tucson from the Gartner Supply Chain conference in Palm Desert, CA I was provided with a few quiet hours to more deeply consider some of the accomplishments of those companies that made up The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 . While …
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I’ve been thinking a lot about an article I read recently. While it focused on procurement, I believe it also correctly points out the flaws in many companies’ supply chain processes—and S&OP specifically. The article , which ran on Supply Chain Digest’s …
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I recently read a blog on The New Supply Chain Agenda Blog titled “Managing Supply Chain Change.” I was reading this article because I run the Professional Services group at a supply chain software company and I am always interested in why supply chain …
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VERY! Whenever I hire new people to be consultants whose previous experience is only in industry, I try and educate them on what consulting skills are and how being a consultant is different than being a product expert. I find many people focus on depth …