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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. The reason? Discontinued in 2011.

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Citations of Excellence Awards 2014

SCM Research

Like every year ( see my previous post ), Emerald rewards authors of exceptional papers covered in its extensive Emerald Management Reviews database with a Citation of Excellence Award (full list). I went through the latest list of the Citations of Excellence Top 50 papers. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H. Ferrin, D., & Rao, H.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. In 2008, the demand planner leaves the meatpacking Company to train for the Olympics. Here are my recommendations: Buy Software Like You Manage A Relationship.

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Rockwell Automation: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008, Rockwell Automation prepared to embark on something intentional: the redesign of manufacturing operations and the supply chain. The total cost of ownership analyzes the total costs of the buying decision. This starts with defining value, and then combining processes, and simplifying the complex.

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Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire from the Supply Chain Insights Conference

Kinaxis

During the Panel, I was asked to comment on the 5 leading factors that make a difference: A clear definition of supply chain excellence by leadership. Most of this middleware was Excel and Meetings. They’ve ranked #1 in the AMR/Gartner list for 7 straight years, since 2008. Functional excellence is no longer good enough.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. On the webinar, when the participants were polled on the reason for rising inventories, over 50% of respondents indicated that it was the lack of an executive understanding of supply chain excellence.

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” The journey began with a one size fits all approach in 2008, and the policies evolved over the course of the last seven years. Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence. The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often.