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On May 29, 2014, I posted a blog about the Top 25 Supply Chains predictions for 2015. “All that being said, here’s my early 2015 “Not So” Bold Predictions : #5 P&G, #4 Unilever, #3 McDonald's, #2 Amazon, #1 Apple.” Almost a year later, that was 100% …
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In part one of this blog series , I noted the changes, or lack thereof, to Gartner’s list of the Top 25 Supply Chains . After realizing little has changed, with the exception of creating a new “Masters” category, which doesn’t really fix anything in the …
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Two years ago, I made some very bold predictions on the 2014 Top 25 Supply Chains, and about 80% of them were true. Last year, I made the not-so bold predictions, as the Gartner 2015 Top 25 Supply Chain rankings were pretty much unchanged. That is, except …
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On the bus ride back to the McDowell Marriott after the 2016 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain event, I plugged my ear phones into my cell and listened to some Pearl Jam. Their classic hit, Last Kiss, the song summed up my thoughts about the 2016 rankings. …
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If you haven’t already, please read Bill Dubois’s blog, “ Latest Polls Show We’ve Lost Faith in Polls ”. Bill speaks to three factors, unpredictability, high randomness and variability. In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so …
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A few years ago, Kevin O’Marah said Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chains was getting increasingly boring. Apple and P&G were annually #1 and #2. So Gartner looked at the numbers and created the Masters category. The criteria in qualifying for the Masters …
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When approaching the concept of knowing sooner and acting faster, and the value of concurrent planning, the most common feedback I get from supply chain executives is: “But my data is bad… I mean, really bad.” It doesn’t matter if they’re high tech, …
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The 11th annual Automotive Logistics Europe conference was held in in Bonn, Germany last week for two days of intense networking, discussions and learning. The discussions were focused on worldwide automotive trends and challenges and tackling lingering …
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A while back I was watching my youngest son play Angry Birds. It was interesting to watch because he would start a level and not really spend too much time looking at how things were set up. He might look at what kind of birds he had to work with, but …
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Maybe because I was a Mechanical Engineer in a previous life I carry around a strong bias for good design (without debating what ‘good’ design is, I’ll just reference ‘ Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design ’ since it’s seemed to have stood the test …
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Continuing the story of a man, his dog, and … actually we’re continuing a conversation reflecting on the “10 Principles of Good Design” as applied to Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management ( Design for the Supply Chain ). The topic this week is …
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OK, seat backs, tray tables up, and seat belts buckled, we’re continuing a conversation reflecting on the “10 Principles of Good Design” as applied to supply chain and supply chain management ( Design for the Supply Chain ) and this week’s principle …