Search
Showing:
1153-1164 of 2441 items
Blog
Recently I was reminded of an old TV commercial for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Now, some of the readers of this blog may not be old enough to remember this commercial, so I'll give you the "Cliffs Notes" version. One person is walking down the street …
Blog
As I wrote earlier, the topic of control towers seems to popping up everywhere lately. But I am sure that there are as many definitions of a control tower as there are analysts and commentators. So I thought I would weigh in with my own definition. …
Blog
Let’s face it: most of us are seeking a little more control over our lives these days. Call it a byproduct of living through an ongoing pandemic and all of its stressors, but feeling like situations in our world are “out of control” takes a hard toll on …
Blog
My wife and I constantly debate form versus functionality in our home. We were looking at redesigning our living room. We have cabinets beside our TV housing all the electronics, like our cable box and gaming console (and a ton of DVDs for some reason), …
Blog
Our partner Celestica recently published the following article, ‘ Six Steps to Ensure your Control Tower Project is Successful ’. The author, Rebecca Schriver, Global Director, Supply Chain Solutions at Celestica, describes the six critical success …
Blog
Our partner Celestica recently published the following article, ‘Staying Ahead of Today’s On-Demand Market: Push Versus Pull Strategies.’ The author, Robert Rejano, Processes and Applications Advisor, Celestia, discusses the key differences between push …
Blog
In a recent article titled “ Virtual vertical integration is the future of supply chain ” SupplyChainManagement.com reported that Flextronics’ CPO and CSCO, Tom Linton, said that virtual vertical integration is: “… managed alignment of external supply …
Blog
It is many years since Gartner started discussing demand-driven value networks. This concept is central to their ideas of an S&OP maturity model in which the most mature level, “Business Orchestration”, is all about what Gartner calls demand translation. …
Blog
Supply chain risk management in the spotlight A few days ago, the world’s seventh largest container shipping company by volume, Hanjin Shipping, filed for bankruptcy protection . A lot of the products being shipped by Hanjin are headed to U.S. and …
Blog
Are you holding your supply chain data hostage in siloed software solutions or data warehouses? It’s time to use all of that data to your advantage. Organizations work hard at collecting all of the data but what happens next? Yes, that’s right…non value …
Blog
In a few weeks, some of us will be gathering, virtually or in person, to celebrate the new year – although “celebrate” might be too positive a term. Fretting about the future is a global preoccupation at the moment, and supply chain disruption has often …
Blog
Recently we had the pleasure of reading a blog by Bob Ferrari, Supply Chain Matters where he interviewed our very own Monique Rupert, VP Customer Services. In the post she made some very good points about the Supply Chain Control Tower, which we wanted …