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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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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). Others will have a purchasing or supplier management board at the senior management level.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Demand latency is two-eight weeks delayed from consumption purchase to translate to an order. I kept pressuring this client to use their channel data locked into the Excel files in their sales account teams. Two decades later, I now write less and listen more. Let me explain.

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Bitcoin and the Brutal Truth!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The emergence of cryptocurrencies occurred when there was a global crisis in 2008. You can consider the example that you can buy beer with $10 worth of bitcoins one day, but the other day, you can buy wine with the same bitcoin. It could have been a severe threat to the finance mechanism.

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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.