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By the ‘twenty-tens’ I’m referring to the decade that has just begun and for which a colloquial name has not yet been coined. I feel that it’s going to be an interesting decade for enterprise software because we are going to witness the fallout from the …
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Companies have been increasing investment in S&OP as they try to simultaneously reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction... and rightly so. Benchmark data shows that those with a more mature process are rewarded with better margins and customer …
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After you go through all the effort of assessing the reliability of a SaaS (software as a service) provider, do you need to implement your own data backups too? This is a question that I’ve pondered about more than once. Isn’t one of the principle value …
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Let me start this post with a teaser: You have 20 light bulbs in your house and they are all the same kind, made by the same manufacturer. The bulbs are used for eight hours a day. The light bulb packaging indicates that each bulb has a burning life of …
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Here is part two of my posting on service parts planning. Check out part one here . On Friday I started explaining how in regards to service parts, supply chain planning is different from planning for manufacturing. The first functional area I covered is …
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India is $1.6 trillion dollar economy which is growing at an average annual rate of 7.5 percent. No global corporation can ignore that. To do business successfully in that geography, their Indian business units and partners must be able to overcome the …
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I’m not talking about the smoke and mirrors of a Las Vegas act. I’m talking about real magic where parts and materials suddenly appear at the right quantity, the right place and at the right time. I’m talking about the two-bin system, reorder points and …
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There used to be a commercial (with Orson Welles for Paul Masson wines) on television back in the 1970’s advertising that they would “sell no wine before its time.” This implied that they wouldn’t release any wine until it reached full maturity and …
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Welcome to the first blog post in the SCM30 series. Throughout 2012, Kinaxis will be exploring the past 30 years—as well as the future—of supply chain management. Though supply chain management concepts have been in practice since the turn of the last …
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A long time ago, back in the 60’s, when early practitioners like Dr. Joseph Orlicky and Oliver Wight both from IBM, first developed computerized Material Requirements Planning (MRP) , there was no way of determining whether or not the manufacturing …
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In October 2011, Simon Rabinovitch of the Financial Times published an article entitled “China labor cost soars as wages surge by 22%.” This figure is an average across the breadth of the country, with Shenzen and Beijing named as the costliest locations …
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In the 1980’s, Europe had what was colloquially known as butter mountains and wine lakes. Farmers in the EU under capitation grants were being paid to produce product for which there was no market. The overhang was enormous, and this inventory glut of …