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ToolsGroup Supports Accelerated Growth With Addition of New Executives

ToolsGroup

These strategic executive hires support rapid company growth, better collaboration, goal clarity, and ongoing improvement in key business metrics while keeping ToolsGroup’s expanding team agile and highly coordinated: Jon Purdy is the new Chief Financial Officer. About ToolsGroup.

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Supply Chain Talent: Our Take on Deloitte’s Survey Report (part 1)

Demand Solutions

“In times of change, when experimentation tends to be rampant and results are still far from conclusive, one source of guidance can be to look at the companies who are succeeding, and discover what they are doing differently.”. But what I found compelling was how Deloitte identified the leaders in supply chain management. Two metrics.

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Supply Chain Talent: Our Take on Deloitte’s Survey Report (part 1)

Demand Solutions

“In times of change, when experimentation tends to be rampant and results are still far from conclusive, one source of guidance can be to look at the companies who are succeeding, and discover what they are doing differently.” But what I found compelling was how Deloitte identified the leaders in supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Senses Must Constantly Be On High Alert!

Supply Chain Game Changer

This includes looking at data and metrics. Developing contingency plans, dual and alternate sources, disaster recovery plans, and more are all measures that you can take preemptively to create much more robust and resilient Supply Chains. You need to have the eyes of a hawk.

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Creating an analytics organization for supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

Don’t just limit yourself to one or two data sources, but drive creating thinking. In the supply chain area, we are certainly seeing a strong need for analytics in areas like collaborative forecasting, inventory management, production planning, and logistics network design. This could include public domain data or economic data.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

However, sourcing managers with a narrow focus on delivery are missing out one of the greatest advantages of forging collaborative supplier partnerships: an opportunity to drive synergies that are otherwise perceived as impossible within the confines of the business. How to overcome these potential conflicts?

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Five Predictions (About Prediction) that Every Procurement Professional Should Consider

Supply Chain View from the Field

Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force. They discovered that there were several leading indicators of demand, including coal (a 10 month leading indicator).