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Showing posts with label supply chain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supply chain. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Supply Chain Transformations Involve Many Elements - Thinking is The Most Important

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It appears every supply chain I know of is in the middle of a big transformation. In many cases people misread the COVID Pandemic surge as a...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Reality is Settling in for Supply Chain Companies

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One observation for supply chain companies is becoming very clear: The anomaly  in the business cycle is the period of 2020 through 2022 and...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Go to Market Strategy before Supply Chain Strategy

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This article is directed mostly towards practitioners who operate supply chains within companies which market and sell products. I have done...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Zero Dark Thiry, Precision, and Supply Chain

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 Last night I re-watched Zero Dark Thirty which is a great Hollywood rendition of the search for and ultimate killing of Osama Bin Laden.  ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Beware FOMO and New Supply Chain Technology

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 In November of 2019 I wrote an article entitled " What Do FOMO and LinkedIn Have To Do With Supply Chain ". FOMO is short for &qu...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

What Separates "Vital Few Metrics" from "Nice to Know" Metrics - And What Can We Learn from Tom Brady...

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 I was reading an article about Tom Brady today in the Washington Post and it led me to think about metrics in supply chain.  How could tha...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Thursday Note on THE Supply Chain - Birth Rate in The United States

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 This is just a quick note on some learnings from the last few days.  While there are a lot of issues in supply chain which are well documen...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Wednesday - Mid Week General Thoughts

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 Here is just a quick summary of some things I am looking at this week and also some things which just make you go ... hmmmmmm: California P...
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Sunday, October 10, 2021

This is Not Just COVID - Supply Chain Disruption Has Been Building for Years

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 I will not bore you with all the pictures and the discussion of how many ships are off the coast of LA waiting to get unloaded.  If you are...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

What Does The Ever Given Episode Teach Us?

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 Many have focused on the Ever Given episode as a symbol for the dangers of international shipping.  Some have discussed it in terms of &qu...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Why The Chief Supply Chain Officer Needs to Understand Customer Experience in Detail

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  Thesis :  The Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) needs to be very close to the Chief Customer Officer or whoever in the enterprise is respo...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

Mike Welch - A Legend Passes On

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It took me a few days to even think about a world without Mike Welch.  Mike was truly a special man.  He was special not in a flashy way ...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Provide Ritz-Carlton Service to Your Customers - It is Mostly Free

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I had such a great experience this weekend I had to, as always, relate it back to customer value chain fulfillment.  We decided to spend the...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Kraft, ZBB and the Art of Designing Supply Chains

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A lot has been written this weekend about what is happening at Kraft Heinz ( KHC ) and why they suddenly had to write down a huge portion of...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

The End of Sears Should Be Mourned by The Supply Chain Community

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If I described to you a retail entity which did the following what would you say? Took orders nationwide over multiple channels (whatever...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Start with The Customer - Ensure Profitability

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Supply chain design is all about two things:  Provide extraordinary customer service through fast and full fulfillment AND do this profitab...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

What is The True State of The Supply Chain Industry?

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As we look at the profession of managing supply chains we tend to spend a lot of time working on specific areas such as S&OP, Six Sigma,...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Supply Chain Talent As Competitive Advantage - Traction

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I recently published a posting about the Ascendency of Supply Chain and the proof point I used was Amazon suing Target over "poaching&...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Ascendency of Supply Chain

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I found the articles recently about Amazon suing a supply chain executive fascinating.  To recap, a top executive (although not the very top...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Where is The Elon Musk of the Logistics World?

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I am currently reading the book   Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future I highly encourage everyone to read it.  H...