Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 24, 2015

This was at the request of my good friend, Tom Nash, who I have known since 2000, when he was an IT Sourcing executive at Shell Oil in Houston. In Tom’s short time that he has been at ARC, he has already helped to make the influence model a core part of the sourcing team culture.

Modeling 60

Modeling Modeling Software Sourcing Strategies Resource Reduction 60

Xeeva

MAY 14, 2018

From speakers like Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, to Dan Bartel, chief procurement officer at ABB, the conference was full of highly informative presentations, forward-thinking ideas from thought leaders, and big goals for the supply chain management community as a whole. I got 99 problems but procurement ain’t 1!

Supply Chain Network Software 43

Supply Chain Network Software Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Software Procurement 43

o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Modeling Material Savings 52

o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

In particular, the landscape is being challenged with a number of fundamental drivers: The changing consumer preferences with the move towards fresh, natural/organic/healthy, convenience foods and locally sourced products but at the same time looking for value. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

Manufacturing Procurement 52

Manufacturing Procurement Modeling Supply Chain Planning Software Optimal Sourcing 52

Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2017

For brands that were able to plan for the hurricanes before they hit, it’s likely that they had a deal in place to source inventory from an unaffected market, so determining how to transport that inventory to where it needs to be in time for the holiday rush will be top priority. Be Flexible, Nimble and Patient.

Supply Chain Planning Software 51

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Planning Scenario Planning Vendor Strategies 51

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

West Coast ports in favor of other ports such as Houston and major U.S. The open question is whether such declines reflect a return to pre-pandemic shipping volumes. A further open question is whether businesses will continue to route imports away from major U.S. East Coast ports.

Negotiating Skills 52

Negotiating Skills Inventory Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Price Reduction 52

Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Recent estimates suggest that Hurricane Harvey destroyed a minimum of 100,000 homes in the Houston-Beaumont, Texas, area. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017. That translates into some $1.8

Supply Chain Planning Software 40

Supply Chain Planning Software Rail Software Demand Planning Software Manufacturing Procurement 40

Requis

JANUARY 22, 2021

When I moved to Houston I did work with a company that was trying to create digital twins before the concept formally existed. This was back in 2001 when I started in Houston. Wood has traditionally been seen as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) group. I’m a chemical engineer.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Innovation Analytics Software 52

NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

The problem in most supply chains is “not enough data”, because data is being created from machines, from people, from systems, and from external sources. Often the sources of information are hidden in piles of data that we don’t think about. How do we understand and limit the data we focus on for decision-making? No easy task.

Sourcing Strategies 40

Sourcing Strategies Material Savings Cost Reduction Strategies Real-time Visibility 40

ThroughPut

JUNE 3, 2019

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

Groups 60

Groups Innovation Supply Chain Planning Software Optimal Sourcing 60

Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Port Houston Container Terminals to Resume Operations Friday (WSJ – sub. LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. Freight Companies Scramble to Reroute Goods in Wake of Harvey (WSJ – sub. UPS, FedEx resume operations in some parts of storm-battered Texas (Reuters).

Logistics Network Optimization Software 0

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software Real-time Visibility Manufacturing Procurement 0

Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. Tackling Procurement. The processes of indirect procurement have little in common with direct material sourcing.

Manufacturing Procurement 221

Manufacturing Procurement Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Planning Software Procurement Analytics 221