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A couple weeks ago, I posted a message titled “Expediting versus Planning?” A lot of response and comments were received with some valuable insight and recommendations on how to reduce expediting and its relation to effective planning. I appreciate all …
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On June 15th, I had the privilege of presenting at the world first Chief Supply Chain Officer Summit alongside a very well-known and respected Supply Chain Leader. I say alongside because Angel Mendez, Senior Vice President of Customer Value Chain …
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Obsolete inventory was always one of my favourite supply chain topics. Nothing starts the finger pointing faster than a reference to obsolete inventory. The beauty of it is that everyone’s hands are dirty and thus everyone feels just in their accusations. …
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Our expectations as consumers are changing. When I was a growing up (I won’t comment on how long ago that was!), we expected to have to wait for things (“It’s in the mail!”). As the technology evolves, the time it takes to do things, and the time we are …
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CIO.com has a very funny (in a sad but true way) post by Thomas Wailgum outlining the 5 steps to ERP software success. From his post; Meet with ERP vendor, get taken to expensive sporting event/dinner by sales rep, and select appropriate software package. …
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As we announced last week , we launched " Suitemates " - a new comedy video series with accomplished actors Kevin Pollak and Ray Wise , who play two imprisoned executives of the fictitious ERP vendor, BILK-Moore. Episode 2 ("Suites are Sour") of the …
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Most manufacturing enterprises have a formal approach to planning and executing production. However, it seems that at a practical level, there is some combination of planning and executing as well as expediting (working to recover to meet late or …
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The supply chain is tightening up again. We are hearing about this in high tech and automotive and most likely in other industries as well. While we never seem to avoid the cyclical nature of demand and supply, it is refreshing to see the level of …
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I was at an event last week where I met a guy who works for an electronics contract manufacturer. He was telling me about a physical inventory they were doing at the plant. Apparently the physical inventory was revealing a lot of inventory discrepancies. …
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Ventana Research recently re-issued a set of slides describing Sales and Operations Planning Best Practices. I would like to add my personal observations about S&OP. S&OP should be a critically important aspect of every company, certainly for any company …
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A fact of life for many manufacturers is that there are customer orders or forecast for products that are going to be late because one or more of the components will be received late from the supplier. In many cases, the components that are not late are …
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A few months ago, I blogged about zombies in the supply chain. Now, it turns out, Zombies aren’t your only problem. Now you need to worry about ghosts! I heard about this issue on TWIT (This week in Tech – a technology podcast). I followed up and found …