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We stubbed our toe in supplychain management at the beginning of the decade. Facing The Issues of SupplyChain Performance. As I work through this year’s SupplyChains to Admire , I cannot help but shake my head. The black veil of the pandemic is a supplychain wake-up call to build better.
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” Here is an excerpt from the article: “…it isn’t by becoming more efficient that the supplychains of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Amazon have given those companies an edge over their competitors. According to my research, top-performing supplychains possess three very different qualities. The gap was large.
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The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. SupplyChain Planners Analogous to Secretarial Pools? The plant was 24 acres under one roof.
Supplychain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supplychain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supplychain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supplychain laggard.
While consultants know the answers (or believe they do), I believe my goal as a research analyst is to unearth new questions that should be asked (and answered together openly in the supplychain community) to improve value. This is why I host training twice a year to challenge existing technology paradigms. Back to John.
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Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supplychain insights and advice. This article is from Michael Balint at Solvoyo and looks at the fresh produce supplychain. To read the article, click HERE.
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While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supplychain–takes longer to recover. The value chain supporting all industries is sick, requiring a leadership step-change. Time For Action. ” [link].
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GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) SupplyChain Resource Cooperative surveyed supplychain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supplychain resilience and optimization.
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” SupplyChain Leader. Interview for Metrics That Matter. My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. I loved the quote that I captured today in my interview (see above), and I have enjoyed interviews with supplychain leaders like Peter Gibbons.
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A quick scan of the Internet will yield a long list of “the biggest-ever supplychain disasters”. Poorly implemented demand planning software mis-forecasts demand for branded sneakers. Would access to better supplychain and IT performance information have helped avert or mitigate these failures? The common thread?
The process as is implemented in many companies focuses on balancing demand and supply based on preestablished rules and policies that serve as guardrails for the planning process. More recently the technology has evolved to a point where such processes can be conducted at a faster cadence than a typical monthly cadence that was the norm.
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